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THE DEFINABLE (P, Q)-THEOREM FOR DISTAL THEORIES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2017

GARETH BOXALL  and
CHARLOTTE KESTNER
GARETH BOXALL
Affiliation:
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY STELLENBOSCH 7600, SOUTH AFRICAE-mail: gboxall@sun.ac.za
CHARLOTTE KESTNER
Affiliation:
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND COMPUTING JEREMIAH HORROCKS INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICS, PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE FYLDE RD, PRESTON PR1 2HE, UKE-mail: ckestner@uclan.ac.uk
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Abstract

Answering a special case of a question of Chernikov and Simon, we show that any non-dividing formula over a model M in a distal NIP theory is a member of a consistent definable family, definable over M.

Keywords

03C45definable (p,q)distalityforkingNIP

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The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 83 , Issue 1 , March 2018 , pp. 123 - 127
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Copyright © The Association for Symbolic Logic 2017 

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