Shelah's eventual model-counting bound for abstract elementary classes
Let be an abstract elementary class (AEC), and let
Assume that has at least one model but fewer than the maximal number of models in some cardinal . Shelah's conjecture. The number of nonisomorphic models of size is bounded by
for each ordinal . This is a proposed model-counting bound in the theory of abstract elementary classes, motivated by the Main Gap programme: a structural decomposition should constrain the number of models, while failure of structure can yield the maximal number. The source presents the statement as a conjecture from the late 1990s; no resolution is given here.
References
Primary source
Rami Grossberg and Olivier Lessmann, “Abstract decomposition theorem and applications”, arXiv:math/0509707 (2005).
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