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Addendum to “A structure theorem for strongly abelian varieties”

Abstract

By a variety we mean a class of algebras in a language , containing only function symbols, which is closed under homomorphisms, submodels, and products. A variety is said to be strongly abelian if for any term in , the quasi-identity holds in . In [1] it was proved that if a strongly abelian variety has less than the maximal possible uncountable spectrum, then it is equivalent to a multisorted unary variety. Using Shelah's Main Gap theorem one can conclude that if is a classifiable (superstable without DOP or OTOP and shallow) strongly abelian variety then is a multisorted unary variety. In fact, it was known that this conclusion followed from the assumption of superstable without DOP alone. This paper is devoted to the proof that the superstability assumption is enough to obtain the same structure result. This fulfills a promise made in [2]. Namely, we will prove the following Theorem 0.1. If is a superstable strongly abelian variety, then it is multisorted unary .

Authors

Hart B; Starchenko S

Journal

Journal of Symbolic Logic, Vol. 58, No. 4, pp. 1419–1425

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Publication Date

December 1, 1993

DOI

10.2307/2275151

ISSN

0022-4812
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