A Contribution to Model Theory and Boolean Algebras

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A Contribution to Model Theory and Boolean Algebras

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dc.contributor.advisor Prešić, Slaviša
dc.contributor.author Mijajlović, Žarko en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2009-12-03T12:14:50Z
dc.date.available 2009-12-03T12:14:50Z
dc.date.issued 1977 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/196
dc.description.abstract Part1. Basic notions of model theory are given. Part2. Dual notions in categories of Boolean algebras and Stone spaces are studied in respect to natural contra-variant functor. The cellularity number of a Boolean algebra B, celB is studied, certain cardinal properties are proved, e.g. it is consistent with ZFC that celB is attained for every Boolean algebra B. Part3. Lindenbaum algebras of first-order theories are studied in details. It is proved that every Boolean algebra is isomorphic to the Lindenbaum algebra B1 of Σ1 formulas of certain first-order complete theory. Stability number ST(k) of a first-order theory T is studied, and it is shown that ST(k) = Ku(k), where Ku(k) is the Kurepa number (Kurepa introduced it in 1935) and T is the theory of dense linear ordering without end-points, while the cardinality of the Stone space of B1(A), A is a model of T, is equal to ded(A), the Dedekind number of the ordering A. Ku(k)= sup{ded(A): A is a model of T, |A|=k}. Part4. Σn Πn ramifications of various notions in model theory are defined and studied, e.g. elementary embeddings, completeness, chains, direct limits, diagram properties, etc. Preservation theorems for these types of formulas are proved. Examples for including ordered structures and algebraic fields are given. Part5. Model completions and elimination of quantifiers are studied. As an application, it is proved that by means of model theory that the classes of Boolean algebras and distributive lattices with the least and the greatest elements are Jonsson’s classes. Algebraic description of saturated models of submodel-complete theories are given, unifying results of Haussdorff (dense linear ordering), Erdös, Gillman (ordered fields) and Boolean algebras (Negrepontis) for homogeneous-universal models. Part6. Here is studied what model-theoretic properties are absolute in ZF in the sense introduced by Levy, i.e. in which cases strong hypothesis (AC, GCH, V=L) can be eliminated from the proof of these properties. It is shown that the following properties of first-order theories are absolute: the consistency, completeness, model-completeness and elimination of quantifiers. These gives new light on model-theoretic proofs of these properties. en
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dc.publisher Belgrade en_US
dc.title A Contribution to Model Theory and Boolean Algebras en_US
dc.title.alternative Prilog teoriji modela i Booleovih algebri sr
mf.author.middle Dušan
mf.author.birth-date 1948
mf.author.birth-place Prokuplje
mf.author.birth-country Yugoslavia
mf.author.residence-state Serbia
mf.author.citizenship Serbian
mf.author.nationality Serbian
mf.title.original Prilog teoriji modela i Booleovih algebri
mf.subject.area Mathematics
mf.subject.keywords model theory, Boolean algebras, Lindenbaum algebras, type, elimination of quantifiers, model completion, atomless, absolutness, Levy hierarchy, Dedekind number, Kurepa number
mf.subject.subarea Algebra - Boolean algebras
mf.subject.subarea Mathematical logic - Model theory
mf.subject.msc 03C10, 03C52, 03G05
mf.contributor.committee Kurepa, Đuro; Prešić, Slaviša; Alimpić, Branka
mf.university.en University of Belgrade
mf.university.faculty Faculty of Science and mathematics
mf.document.references 43
mf.document.pages VI + 158
mf.document.location Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade, Serbia
mf.document.location Library of the University of Belgrade, Serbia
mf.document.genealogy-project Yes
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