662 research outputs found
On uniform canonical bases in lattices and other metric structures
We discuss the notion of \emph{uniform canonical bases}, both in an abstract
manner and specifically for the theory of atomless lattices. We also
discuss the connection between the definability of the set of uniform canonical
bases and the existence of the theory of beautiful pairs (i.e., with the finite
cover property), and prove in particular that the set of uniform canonical
bases is definable in algebraically closed metric valued fields
Model theoretic stability and definability of types, after A. Grothendieck
We point out how the "Fundamental Theorem of Stability Theory", namely the
equivalence between the "non order property" and definability of types, proved
by Shelah in the 1970s, is in fact an immediate consequence of Grothendieck's
"Crit{\`e}res de compacit{\'e}" from 1952. The familiar forms for the defining
formulae then follow using Mazur's Lemma regarding weak convergence in Banach
spaces
On the undefinability of Tsirelson's space and its descendants
We prove that Tsirelson's space cannot be defined explicitly from the
classical Banach sequence spaces. We also prove that any Banach space that is
explicitly definable from a class of spaces that contain or must
contain or as well
Continuous first order logic and local stability
We develop continuous first order logic, a variant of the logic described in
\cite{Chang-Keisler:ContinuousModelTheory}. We show that this logic has the
same power of expression as the framework of open Hausdorff cats, and as such
extends Henson's logic for Banach space structures. We conclude with the
development of local stability, for which this logic is particularly
well-suited
Modular functionals and perturbations of Nakano spaces
We settle several questions regarding the model theory of Nakano spaces left
open by the PhD thesis of Pedro Poitevin \cite{Poitevin:PhD}. We start by
studying isometric Banach lattice embeddings of Nakano spaces, showing that in
dimension two and above such embeddings have a particularly simple and rigid
form. We use this to show show that in the Banach lattice language the modular
functional is definable and that complete theories of atomless Nakano spaces
are model complete. We also show that up to arbitrarily small perturbations of
the exponent Nakano spaces are -categorical and -stable. In
particular they are stable
On Roeckle-precompact Polish group which cannot act transitively on a complete metric space
We study when a continuous isometric action of a Polish group on a complete
metric space is, or can be, transitive. Our main results consist of showing
that certain Polish groups, namely and
, such an action can never be transitive (unless the
space acted upon is a singleton). We also point out "circumstantial evidence"
that this pathology could be related to that of Polish groups which are not
closed permutation groups and yet have discrete uniform distance, and give a
general characterisation of continuous isometric action of a Roeckle-precompact
Polish group on a complete metric space is transitive. It follows that the
morphism from a Roeckle-precompact Polish group to its Bohr compactification is
surjective
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