Vaught's conjecture on the number of countable models
Let be an elementary first-order theory, and consider its countable models up to isomorphism. Vaught's conjecture. The number of countable models of is either countable or continuum. This is a central question in model theory. Morley proved that the number is one of , , or continuum, so the conjecture rules out the intermediate possibility ; 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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