Gaifman's conjecture on categoricity over a predicate and nulldimensionality

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Let TT be a countable complete first-order theory with a distinguished predicate PP. Say that TT is categorical over PP when it has at most one model, up to isomorphism over PP, with any prescribed PP-part. Let TT be nulldimensional over PP in the sense used in the source, and let a u.l.a. P(n)\mathcal P^-(n)-system mean the corresponding system defined in the paper. Gaifman's conjecture. The class of 1\aleph_1-saturated models of TT is absolutely categorical over PP if and only if TT is nulldimensional, and every u.l.a. P(n)\mathcal P^-(n)-system is stable over PP. The conjecture is the proposed completion of the equivalence results summarized immediately beforehand: the source explains that the relevant non-structure implication is fully proved only for n3n\leq 3, while the general case is believed to follow from Shelah's argument but is not fully established there.

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Alexander Usvyatsov, “On the existence property over a predicate”, arXiv:2502.20236 (2025).

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