Gaifman's conjecture on categoricity over a predicate and nulldimensionality
Gaifman's conjecture on categoricity over a predicate and nulldimensionality
Let be a countable complete first-order theory with a distinguished predicate . Say that is categorical over when it has at most one model, up to isomorphism over , with any prescribed -part. Let be nulldimensional over in the sense used in the source, and let a u.l.a. -system mean the corresponding system defined in the paper. Gaifman's conjecture. The class of -saturated models of is absolutely categorical over if and only if is nulldimensional, and every u.l.a. -system is stable over . 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 , 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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