The primitive intermediate-growth conjecture for the circular order

Let c9c9-categorical mean categorical in every infinite cardinality, and for an c9c9-categorical structure c4c4 let un(c4)u_n(c4) denote the number of orbits of c0goperatornameAut(c4)c0 goperatorname{Aut}(c4) on nn-element subsets of c4c4. A structure is bidefinable with another when each is definable in the other. Let S(2)S(2) be the generic two-tournament structure and let its betweenness reduct be the reduct mentioned in the source.

Primitive intermediate-growth conjecture. If a primitive c9c9-categorical structure c4c4 satisfies

2np(n)<un(c4)<2nq(n)\frac{2^n}{p(n)}<u_n(c4)<\frac{2^n}{q(n)}

for some polynomials pp and qq, then c4c4 is bidefinable with S(2)S(2) or its betweenness reduct.

The conjecture proposes a classification of primitive c9c9-categorical structures with orbit growth lying between two polynomially corrected copies of 2n2^n. The source presents it after noting that the circular-order betweenness structure has the slowest known primitive growth in this range; it remains open.

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Primary source

Manuel Bodirsky, Bertalan Bodor and Paolo Marimon, “Taking model-complete cores”, arXiv:2512.21278 (2026).

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