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Dividing and chain conditions

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We obtain a chain condition for dividing in an arbitrary theory and a new and shorter proof of a chain condition result of Shelah for simple theories.

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Correspondence to Enrique Casanovas.

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Work partially supported by grant PB98-1231 of the Spanish Government. The author wishes to thank Anand Pillay for helpful comments on a first version of this article.

Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): 03C45

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Casanovas, E. Dividing and chain conditions. Arch. Math. Logic 42, 815–819 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00153-003-0192-0

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