Lectures on Infinitary Model Theory (Lecture Notes in Logic, Series Number 46) - Hardcover

Marker, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107181933 ISBN 13: 9781107181939

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Infinitary logic, the logic of languages with infinitely long conjunctions, plays an important role in model theory, recursion theory and descriptive set theory. This book is the first modern introduction to the subject in forty years, and will bring students and researchers in all areas of mathematical logic up to the threshold of modern research. The classical topics of back-and-forth systems, model existence techniques, indiscernibles and end extensions are covered before more modern topics are surveyed. Zilber's categoricity theorem for quasiminimal excellent classes is proved and an application is given to covers of multiplicative groups. Infinitary methods are also used to study uncountable models of counterexamples to Vaught's conjecture, and effective aspects of infinitary model theory are reviewed, including an introduction to Montalbán's recent work on spectra of Vaught counterexamples. Self-contained introductions to effective descriptive set theory and hyperarithmetic theory are provided, as is an appendix on admissible model theory.

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Book Description

This book is the first modern introduction to the logic of infinitary languages in forty years, and is aimed at graduate students and researchers in all areas of mathematical logic. Connections between infinitary model theory and other branches of mathematical logic, and applications to algebra and algebraic geometry are both comprehensively explored.

About the Author

David Marker is LAS Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. His main area of research is model theory and its connections to algebra, geometry and descriptive set theory. His book, Model Theory: An Introduction, is one of the most frequently used graduate texts in the subject and was awarded the Shoenfield Prize for expository writing by the Association for Symbolic Logic.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1107181933
• ISBN 13: 9781107181939
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192