Building Models by Games - Couverture souple

Hodges, Wilfrid

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0486450171 ISBN 13 : 9780486450179

Editeur : Dover Publications Inc., 2006

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Book by Wilfrid Hodges

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This book introduces a general method for building infinite mathematical structures, and surveys its applications in algebra and model theory. The basic idea behind the method is to build a structure by a procedure with infinitely many steps, similar to a game between two players that goes on indefinitely. The approach is new and helps to simplify, motivate and unify a wide range of constructions that were previously carried out separately and by ad hoc methods. The first chapter provides a resume of basic model theory. A wide variety of algebraic applications are studied, with detailed analyses of existentially closed groups of class 2. Another chapter describes the classical model-theoretic form of this method -of construction, which is known variously as 'omitting types', 'forcing' or the 'Henkin-Orey theorem'. The last three chapters are more specialised and discuss how the same idea can be used to build uncountable structures. Applications include completeness for Magidor-Malitz quantifiers, and Shelah's recent and sophisticated omitting types theorem for L(Q). There are also applications to Bdolean algebras and models of arithmetic.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Dover Publications Inc.
• Date d'édition: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0486450171
• ISBN 13: 9780486450179
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 318