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The externally definable Ramsey property and fixed points on type spaces

2023/09/12 by Meir, Nadav, Sullivan, Rob
#03C15 #05C55 #05D10 #20B27 #37B05 #Combinatorics (math.CO) #FOS: Mathematics #Logic (math.LO)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2309.06522

Abstract

We discuss the externally definable Ramsey property, a weakening of the Ramsey property for ultrahomogeneous structures, where the only colourings considered are those that are externally definable: that is, definable with parameters in an elementary extension. We show a number of basic results analogous to the classical Ramsey theory, and show that, for an ultrahomogeneous structure M with countable age, the externally definable Ramsey property is equivalent to the dynamical statement that, for each natural number n, every subflow of the space of n-types with parameters in M has a fixed point. We discuss a range of examples, including results regarding the lexicographic product of structures.

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