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On theories T categorical in |T|

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Saharon Shelah*
Affiliation:
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Abstract

Morley conjectured that if an infinite first-order theory T is categorical in the power |T| > ℵ0, then it has a model of power < |T| Here we affirm this conjecture for the case |T|ℵ0=|T|.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1970

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Footnotes

1

I would like to thank my friend Leo Marcus for translating this paper and finding many errors. I would like to thank Mr. Victor Harnik for suggesting the simplified proof of Theorem 6.2, which appears here.

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