Scott-set characterization of transcendence for countable recursively saturated models

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Let MM be a countable recursively saturated model of PA\mathrm{PA}, and let SSy⁡(M)\operatorname{SSy}(M) denote its standard system. Transcendence characterization conjecture. There is a property of Scott sets such that

M\mdlsPAM \mdls \mathrm{PA}

is transcendent if and only if SSy⁡(M)\operatorname{SSy}(M) has that property. The question concerns whether transcendence for countable models can be characterized by saturation properties; the text conjectures this partial answer for models of PA\mathrm{PA}, while noting that the analogous assertion is expected to fail in other settings.

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Fredrik Engström, “Expansions, omitting types, and standard systems”, arXiv:math/0410523 (2004).

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