Generalized Gaifman conjecture on non-structure over a predicate
Generalized Gaifman conjecture on non-structure over a predicate
Let be a countable complete theory, and let be a distinguished unary predicate in its vocabulary. Assume that fails the Gaifman property: there is a model of the theory of such that no model satisfies . Let be a sufficiently large regular cardinal and let .
Generalized Gaifman conjecture. The theory has models of cardinality that are pairwise non-isomorphic over .
This asserts non-structure over when the Gaifman property fails. The paper separates it into stability implying the Gaifman property and instability implying non-structure; the source says that the first part is proved, while the general non-structure assertion remains a conjecture.
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Saharon Shelah and Alexander Usvyatsov, “Stable amalgamation over a predicate and the Gaifman property”, arXiv:2507.12631 (2025).
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