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On uniqueness of prime models

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Saharon Shelah
Saharon Shelah*
Affiliation:
Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706
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Abstract

We prove there are theories (stable or countable) for which over every A there is a prime model but it is not necessarily unique. We also give a simplified proof of the uniqueness theorem for countable stable theories.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 44 , Issue 2 , June 1979 , pp. 215 - 220
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1979

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