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Stable structures with few substructures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Michael C. Laskowski
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA, E-mail: [email protected]
Laura L. Mayer
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL 60626, USA, E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract

A countable, atomically stable structure in a finite, relational language has fewer than 2ω non-isomorphic substructures if and only if is cellular. An example shows that the finiteness of the language is necessary.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1996

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