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InfinitaryLogic.Descriptive.CountingDichotomy

Conditional Counting Dichotomy for Models #

This file states the Silver–Burgess dichotomy as an explicit hypothesis, defines the isomorphism equivalence relation on coded ℕ-models, and derives a conditional counting theorem: for Lω₁ω sentences whose ℕ-models have bounded Scott height, the number of isomorphism classes is either ≤ ℵ₀ or exactly 2^ℵ₀.

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Main Results #

The Silver–Burgess dichotomy for Borel equivalence relations: on a standard Borel space, a Borel equivalence relation has either at most countably many classes or exactly continuum-many.

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    The isomorphism equivalence relation on coded ℕ-models of φ. Two codes are related iff the decoded structures on ℕ are L-isomorphic.

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      Conditional counting theorem for ℕ-models with bounded Scott height: if the Silver–Burgess dichotomy holds, then for any Lω₁ω sentence whose ℕ-models all have Scott height ≤ α < ω₁, the number of isomorphism classes among ℕ-models of φ is either ≤ ℵ₀ or exactly 2^ℵ₀.