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Sequential theories and infinite distributivity in the lattice of chapters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Alan S. Stern
Alan S. Stern*
Affiliation:
The Rowland Institute for Science, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142
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Abstract

We introduce a notion of complexity for interpretations, which is used to prove some new results about interpretations of sequential theories. In particular, we give a new, elementary proof of Pudlák's theorem that sequential theories are connected. We also demonstrate a counterexample to the infinitary distributive law

in the lattice of chapters, in which the chapters a and bi are compact. (Counterexamples in which a is not compact have been found previously.)

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 54 , Issue 1 , March 1989 , pp. 190 - 206
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1989

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