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Model completions and omitting types

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Terrence Millar*
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Van Veck Hall, 480 Lincoln Drive, Madison, WI53706

Abstract

Universal theories with model completions are characterized. A new omitting types theorem is proved. These two results are used to prove the existence of a universal ℵ0-categorical partial order with an interesting embedding property. Other aspects of these results also are considered.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1995

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