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The Hart-Shelah example, in stronger logics

Saharon Shelah, Andrés Villaveces

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We generalize the Hart-Shelah example \cite{HaSh:323} to higher infinitary logics. We build, for each natural number $k\geq 2$ and for each infinite cardinal $λ$, a sentence $ψ_k^λ$ of the logic $L_{(2^λ)^+,ω}$ that (modulo mild set theoretical hypotheses around $λ$ and assuming $2^λ< λ^{+m}$) is categorical in $λ^+,\dots,λ^{+k-1}$ but not in $\beth_{k+1}(λ)^+$ (or beyond); we study the dimensional encoding of combinatorics involved in the construction of this sentence and study various model-theoretic properties of the resulting abstract elementary class ${\mathcal K}^*(λ,k)=(Mod(ψ_k^λ),\prec_{(2^λ)^+,ω})$ in the finite interval of cardinals $λ,λ^+,\dots,λ^{+k}$.

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We generalize the Hart-Shelah example \cite{HaSh:323} to higher infinitary logics. We build, for each natural number $k\geq 2$ and for each infinite cardinal $λ$, a sentence $ψ_k^λ$ of the logic $L_{(2^λ)^+,ω}$ that (modulo mild set theoretical hypotheses around $λ$ and assuming $2^λ< λ^{+m}$) is categorical in $λ^+,\dots,λ^{+k-1}$ but not in $\beth_{k+1}(λ)^+$ (or beyond); we study the dimensional encoding of combinatorics involved in the construction of this sentence and study various model-theoretic properties of the resulting abstract elementary class ${\mathcal K}^*(λ,k)=(Mod(ψ_k^λ),\prec_{(2^λ)^+,ω})$ in the finite interval of cardinals $λ,λ^+,\dots,λ^{+k}$.

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We generalize the Hart-Shelah example \cite{HaSh:323} to higher infinitary logics. We build, for each natural number $k\geq 2$ and for each infinite cardinal $λ$, a sentence $ψ_k^λ$ of the logic $L_{(2^λ)^+,ω}$ that (modulo mild set theoretical hypotheses around $λ$ and assuming $2^λ< λ^{+m}$) is categorical in $λ^+,\dots,λ^{+k-1}$ but not in $\beth_{k+1}(λ)^+$ (or beyond); we study the dimensional encoding of combinatorics involved in the construction of this sentence and study various model-theoretic properties of the resulting abstract elementary class ${\mathcal K}^*(λ,k)=(Mod(ψ_k^λ),\prec_{(2^λ)^+,ω})$ in the finite interval of cardinals $λ,λ^+,\dots,λ^{+k}$.

Key concepts: Lambda, Mathematics, Omega, Combinatorics, Natural number, Modulo, Discrete mathematics, Physics

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