Graduate Logic Group: Morley's Result on the Number of Countable Models | Department of Mathematics

Graduate Logic Group: Morley's Result on the Number of Countable Models

Event Information
Event Location: 
GAB 461
Event Date: 
Wednesday, September 21, 2016 - 3:45pm

In this talk, we will show the result of Morley that the number of countable models for a theory must be either at most $\aleph_1$ or $2^{\aleph_0}$. The proof splits into two cases showcasing different areas of logic: model theoretic arguments for the at most $\aleph_1$ case and descriptive set theory showing all others must have $2^{\aleph_0}$ models.