Vaught's conjecture on the number of countable models

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Let TT be an elementary first-order theory, and consider its countable models up to isomorphism. Vaught's conjecture. The number of countable models of TT is either countable or continuum. This is a central question in model theory. Morley proved that the number is one of \a0ℵ0\a0\aleph_0, \a0ℵ1\a0\aleph_1, or continuum, so the conjecture rules out the intermediate possibility \a0ℵ1\a0\aleph_1; it is automatically true under the continuum hypothesis and remains open in general.

References

Primary source

Matthew Harrison-Trainor, “An introduction to the Scott complexity of countable structures and a survey of recent results”, arXiv:2011.03923 (2020).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2011–2020). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1112.0344.

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