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Reconstruction of homogeneous relational structures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Silvia Barbina  and
Dugald Macpherson
Silvia Barbina
Affiliation:
Departament de Lògica, Història i Filosofia de la Ciència, Universitat de Barcelona, C/ Montalegre, 6, 08001 Barcelona, Spain. E-mail: silvia.barbina@gmail.com
Dugald Macpherson
Affiliation:
Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Leedsleeds LS2 9JT. England, UK. E-mail: h.d.macpherson@leeds.ac.uk
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This paper contains a result on the reconstruction of certain homogeneous transitive ω-categorical structures from their automorphism group. The structures treated are relational. In the proof it is shown that their automorphism group contains a generic pair (in a slightly non-standard sense, coming from Baire category).

Reconstruction results give conditions under which the abstract group structure of the automorphism group Aut() of an ω-categorical structure determines the topology on Aut(), and hence determines up to bi-interpretability, by [1]; they can also give conditions under which the abstract group Aut() determines the permutation group ⟨Aut (), ⟩. so determines up to bi-definability. One such condition has been identified by M. Rubin in [12], and it is related to the definability, in Aut(), of point stabilisers. If the condition holds, the structure is said to have a weak ∀∃ interpretation, and Aut() determines up to bi-interpretability or, in some cases, up to bi-definability.

A better-known approach to reconstruction is via the ‘small index property’: an ω-categorical stucture has the small index property if any subgroup of Aut() of index less than is open. This guarantees that the abstract group structure of Aut() determines the topology, so if is ω-categorical with Aut() ≅ Aut() then and are bi-interpretable.

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Research Article
Information
The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 72 , Issue 3 , September 2007 , pp. 792 - 802
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2007

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