The benignity conjecture for subsets of models of stable theories

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Let TT be a stable theory, let MM be a model of TT, and let AMA\subseteq M. The set AA is benign in MM if equality of types over AA implies equality of the corresponding types in the language expanded by a predicate for AA. The benignity conjecture. Every subset AMA\subseteq M is benign. Shelah observed a counterexample: there is an ω\omega-stable rank-22 theory with ndop having a model and a subset that is not benign. Thus the conjecture is refuted.

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Bektur Baizhanov, John Baldwin and Saharon Shelah, “Subsets of superstable structures are weakly benign”, arXiv:math/0303324 (2003).

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