12 research outputs found
EPPA for two-graphs and antipodal metric spaces
We prove that the class of finite two-graphs has the extension property for
partial automorphisms (EPPA, or Hrushovski property), thereby answering a
question of Macpherson. In other words, we show that the class of graphs has
the extension property for switching automorphisms. We present a short,
self-contained, purely combinatorial proof which also proves EPPA for the class
of integer valued antipodal metric spaces of diameter 3, answering a question
of Aranda et al.
The class of two-graphs is an important new example which behaves differently
from all the other known classes with EPPA: Two-graphs do not have the
amalgamation property with automorphisms (APA), their Ramsey expansion has to
add a graph, it is not known if they have coherent EPPA and even EPPA itself
cannot be proved using the Herwig--Lascar theorem.Comment: 14 pages, 3 figure
Ramsey expansions of metrically homogeneous graphs
We discuss the Ramsey property, the existence of a stationary independence
relation and the coherent extension property for partial isometries (coherent
EPPA) for all classes of metrically homogeneous graphs from Cherlin's
catalogue, which is conjectured to include all such structures. We show that,
with the exception of tree-like graphs, all metric spaces in the catalogue have
precompact Ramsey expansions (or lifts) with the expansion property. With two
exceptions we can also characterise the existence of a stationary independence
relation and the coherent EPPA.
Our results can be seen as a new contribution to Ne\v{s}et\v{r}il's
classification programme of Ramsey classes and as empirical evidence of the
recent convergence in techniques employed to establish the Ramsey property, the
expansion (or lift or ordering) property, EPPA and the existence of a
stationary independence relation. At the heart of our proof is a canonical way
of completing edge-labelled graphs to metric spaces in Cherlin's classes. The
existence of such a "completion algorithm" then allows us to apply several
strong results in the areas that imply EPPA and respectively the Ramsey
property.
The main results have numerous corollaries on the automorphism groups of the
Fra\"iss\'e limits of the classes, such as amenability, unique ergodicity,
existence of universal minimal flows, ample generics, small index property,
21-Bergman property and Serre's property (FA).Comment: 57 pages, 14 figures. Extends results of arXiv:1706.00295. Minor
revisio
A combinatorial proof of the extension property for partial isometries
We present a short and self-contained proof of the extension property for
partial isometries of the class of all finite metric spaces.Comment: 7 pages, 1 figure. Minor revision. Accepted to Commentationes
Mathematicae Universitatis Carolina
Semigroup-valued metric spaces
The structural Ramsey theory is a field on the boundary of combinatorics and
model theory with deep connections to topological dynamics. Most of the known
Ramsey classes in finite binary symmetric relational language can be shown to
be Ramsey by utilizing a variant of the shortest path completion (e.g. Sauer's
-metric spaces, Conant's generalised metric spaces, Braunfeld's
-ultrametric spaces or Cherlin's metrically homogeneous graphs). In
this thesis we explore the limits of the shortest path completion. We offer a
unifying framework --- semigroup-valued metric spaces --- for all the
aforementioned Ramsey classes and study their Ramsey expansions and EPPA (the
extension property for partial automorphisms). Our results can be seen as
evidence for the importance of studying the completion problem for amalgamation
classes and have some further applications (such as the stationary independence
relation).
As a corollary of our general theorems, we reprove results of Hubi\v{c}ka and
Ne\v{s}et\v{r}il on Sauer's -metric spaces, results of Hub\v{c}ka,
Ne\v{s}et\v{r}il and the author on Conant's generalised metric spaces,
Braunfeld's results on -ultrametric spaces and the results of Aranda
et al. on Cherlin's primitive 3-constrained metrically homogeneous graphs. We
also solve several open problems such as EPPA for -ultrametric spaces,
-metric spaces or Conant's generalised metric spaces.
Our framework seems to be universal enough that we conjecture that every
primitive strong amalgamation class of complete edge-labelled graphs with
finitely many labels is in fact a class of semigroup-valued metric spaces.Comment: Master thesis, defended in June 201
Ramsey properties and extending partial automorphisms for classes of finite structures
We show that every free amalgamation class of finite structures with relations and (set-valued) functions is a Ramsey class when enriched by a free linear ordering of vertices. This is a common strengthening of the Neˇsetˇril-R¨odl Theorem and the second and third authors’ Ramsey theorem for finite models (that is, structures with both relations and functions). We also find subclasses with the ordering property. For languages with relational symbols and unary functions we also show the extension property for partial automorphisms (EPPA) of free amalgamation classes. These general results solve several conjectures and provide an easy Ramseyness test for many classes of structures
Metrically homogeneous graphs of diameter 3
We classify countable metrically homogeneous graphs of diameter 3