Shelah's eventual model-counting bound for abstract elementary classes

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Let K⁡\operatorname{\mathcal{K}} be an abstract elementary class (AEC), and let

δ=(2LS⁡(K⁡))+.\delta=(2^{\operatorname{LS}(\operatorname{\mathcal{K}})})^+.

Assume that K⁡\operatorname{\mathcal{K}} has at least one model but fewer than the maximal number of models in some cardinal λ>ℶδ\lambda>\beth_\delta. Shelah's conjecture. The number of nonisomorphic models of size ℵα\aleph_\alpha is bounded by

ℶδ(ℵ0+∣α∣)\beth_\delta(\aleph_0+|\alpha|)

for each ordinal α\alpha. 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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