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Σ1-compactness and ultraproducts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Nigel Cutland*
Affiliation:
University of Hull, Hull, England

Extract

This paper is devoted to a description of the way in which ultraproducts can be used in proofs of various well-known Σ1-compactness theorems for infinitary languages A associated with admissible sets A; the method generalises the ultra-product proof of compactness for finitary languages.

The compactness theorems we consider are (§2) the Barwise Compactness Theorem for A when A is countable admissible [1], and (§3) the Cofinality (ω) Compactness Theorem of Barwise and Karp [2] and [4]. Our proof of the Barwise theorem unfortunately has the defect that it relies heavily on the Completeness Theorem for A. This defect has, however, been avoided in the case of the Cf(ω) Compactness Theorem, so we have a purely model-theoretic proof.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1972

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