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Projective model completeness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

George S. Sacerdote
George S. Sacerdote*
Affiliation:
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersy 08540
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The concept of model completeness has been very useful in model theory. In this article we obtain a new model theoretic tool by “reversing the arrows.” Specifically, model completeness deals with the relations between a model of a theory and its extensions; in this paper we shall be concerned with the relation between a model of a theory and its homomorphic pre-images.

This work is based on the intuitive principle that metamathematical theorems about universal sentences of the lower predicate calculus and substructures can be translated in a truth-preserving way to theorems about positive sentences and homomorphic images. From model completeness and the completeness theorems which depend on it, this translation gives new criteria for completeness.

Special thanks are due to Professor A. Robinson whose encouragement and suggestions have contributed much to these results.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 39 , Issue 1 , March 1974 , pp. 117 - 123
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1974

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