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arxiv: 1710.09336 · v1 · pith:574AA4RBnew · submitted 2017-10-25 · 🧮 math.LO · math.CO· math.PR

Properly ergodic structures

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We consider ergodic $\mathrm{Sym}(\mathbb{N})$-invariant probability measures on the space of $L$-structures with domain $\mathbb{N}$ (for $L$ a countable relational language), and call such a measure a properly ergodic structure when no isomorphism class of structures is assigned measure $1$. We characterize those theories in countable fragments of $\mathcal{L}_{\omega_1, \omega}$ for which there is a properly ergodic structure concentrated on the models of the theory. We show that for a countable fragment $F$ of $\mathcal{L}_{\omega_1, \omega}$ the almost-sure $F$-theory of a properly ergodic structure has continuum-many models (an analogue of Vaught's Conjecture in this context), but its full almost-sure $\mathcal{L}_{\omega_1, \omega}$-theory has no models. We also show that, for an $F$-theory $T$, if there is some properly ergodic structure that concentrates on the class of models of $T$, then there are continuum-many such properly ergodic structures.

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