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Elimination of imaginaries in expansions of o-minimal structures by generic sets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Sergio Fratarcangeli
Sergio Fratarcangeli*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Mcmaster University, Hamilton. Ontario L8S 4K1., Canada, E-mail: fratars@math.mcmaster.ca
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Abstract

Let TP be the theory obtained by adding a generic predicate to an o-minimal theory T. We prove that if T admits elimination of imaginaries, then TP also admits elimination of imaginaries.

Keywords

generic predicateselimination of imaginarieso-minimal structures
Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 70 , Issue 4 , December 2005 , pp. 1150 - 1160
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2005

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