Infinitary logic, the logic of languages with infinitely long conjunctions, plays an important role in model theory, recursion theory and descriptive set theory. This book is the first modern introduction to the subject in forty years, and will bring students and researchers in all areas of mathematical logic up to the threshold of modern research. The classical topics of back-and-forth systems, model existence techniques, indiscernibles and end extensions are covered before more modern topics are surveyed. Zilber's categoricity theorem for quasiminimal excellent classes is proved and an application is given to covers of multiplicative groups. Infinitary methods are also used to study uncountable models of counterexamples to Vaught's conjecture, and effective aspects of infinitary model theory are reviewed, including an introduction to Montalban's recent work on spectra of Vaught counterexamples. Self-contained introductions to effective descriptive set theory and hyperarithmetic theory are provided, as is an appendix on admissible model theory.



Zusammenfassung
Explores connections between infinitary model theory and other branches of mathematical logic, with algebraic applications.
Titel
Lectures on Infinitary Model Theory
EAN
9781316856949
ISBN
978-1-316-85694-9
Format
E-Book (epub)
Veröffentlichung
27.10.2016
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
4.37 MB
Jahr
2016
Untertitel
Englisch