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On models of the elementary theory of (Z, +, 1)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Mark Nadel  and
Jonathan Stavi
Mark Nadel*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
Jonathan Stavi
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
*
Mitre Corporation, Burlington Road, Bedford, Massachusetts 01730
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Let T1 be the complete first-order theory of the additive group of the integers with 1 as distinguished element (in symbols, T1 = Th(Z, +, 1)). In this paper we prove that all models of T1 are ℵ0-homogeneous (§2), classify them (and lists of elements in them) up to isomorphism or L∞κ-equivalence (§§3 and 4) and show that they may be as complex as arbitrary sets of real numbers from the point of view of admissible set theory (§5). The results of §§2 and 5 together show that while the Scott heights of all models of T1 are ≤ ω (by ℵ0-homogeneity) their HYP-heights form an unbounded subset of the cardinal .

In addition to providing this unusual example of the relation between Scott heights and HYP-heights, the theory T1 has served (using the homogeneity results of §2) as an example for certain combinations of properties that people had looked for in stability theory (see end of §4). In §6 it is shown that not all models of T = Th(Z, +) are ℵ0-homogeneous, so that the availability of the constant for 1 is essential for the result of §2.

The two main results of this paper (2.2 and essentially Theorem 5.3) were obtained in the summer of 1979. Later we learnt from Victor Harnik and Julia Knight that T1 is of some interest for stability theory, and were encouraged to write up our proofs.

During 1982/3 we improved the proofs and added some results.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 55 , Issue 1 , March 1990 , pp. 1 - 20
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1990

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