Stability and General Logics

Abstract

AbstractIn this paper we make an attempt to study classes of models by using general logics. We do not believe that Lww is always the best logic for analyzing a class of models. Let K be a class of models and L a logic. The main assumptions we make about K and C are that K has the L‐amalgamation property and, later in the paper, that K does not omit L‐types. We show that, if modified suitably, most of the results of stability theory hold in this context. The main difference is that existentially closed models of K play the role that arbitrary models play in traditional stability theory. We prove e. g. a structure theorem for the class of existentially closed models of K assuming that K is a trivial superstable class with ndop.