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NOTES ON THE STABLE REGULARITY LEMMA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 December 2021

M. MALLIARIS
Affiliation:
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 5734 S. UNIVERSITY AVENUE CHICAGO, IL60637, USAE-mail: mem@math.uchicago.edu
S. SHELAH
Affiliation:
EINSTEIN INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS EDMOND J. SAFRA CAMPUS, GIVAT RAM THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM JERUSALEM, 91904, ISRAEL and DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS HILL CENTER – BUSCH CAMPUS, RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY 110 FRELINGHUYSEN ROAD, PISCATAWAY, NJ 08854, USA E-mail: shelah@math.huji.ac.ilURL: http://shelah.logic.at

Abstract

This is a short expository account of the regularity lemma for stable graphs proved by the authors, with some comments on the model theoretic context, written for a general logical audience.

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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Association for Symbolic Logic

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