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On rational limits of Shelah–Spencer graphs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Justin Brody
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Franklin & Marshall College, Po Box 3003, Lancaster, PA 17604-3003, USA, E-mail: justin.brody@fandm.edu
M. C. Laskowski
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Mathematics Building, University of Maryland, College Park, Md 20742-4015, USA, E-mail: mcl@math.umd.edu

Abstract

Given a sequence {αn} in (0,1) converging to a rational, we examine the model theoretic properties of structures obtained as limits of Shelah-Spencer graphs G(). We show that in most cases the model theory is either extremely well-behaved or extremely wild, and characterize when each occurs.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2012

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