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The Ehrenfeucht-Mostowski theorem says that an infinite first-order structure , after Skolem expansion, has an elementarily equivalent model generated as a Skolem hull by distinct order-indiscernible sequence for any prescribed linear order . Every order automorphism of extends uniquely to an automorphism preserving this Skolem expansion. The reduct still models , but uniqueness of an automorphism in the reduct alone is not asserted. Iterate adjoining witness functions through all successively enlarged languages, so every existential formula in the final language has its own Skolem function. Write for the resulting expanded structure.
For the Ramsey theorem proof, add constants and require that they are distinct and that every two increasing tuples of the same length agree on every formula of the expanded language. Include . A finite fragment mentions finitely many formulas and finitely many indices, say of them. Choose distinct . For each arity occurring in those formulas, color the increasing tuples of natural numbers by their finite truth vectors in . Repeated applications of the infinite Ramsey theorem give an infinite subset homogeneous for all these finitely many colorings. Interpret the constants by its first elements, in their prescribed order. All the fragment's indiscernibility requirements hold. Thus compactness theorem produces a model of the whole scheme.
Let be the Skolem hull of the . Whenever an existential formula with parameters in holds in , its chosen Skolem witness belongs to . The Tarski-Vaught test, proved by the existential step of induction on formulas, therefore makes . For an order automorphism , define
To compare different term presentations, collect all their indices into one increasing tuple. Indiscernibility transfers the equality of the terms to the transported tuple, so this map is well defined. The same argument transfers every relation; it preserves all functions by construction, and the map for is its inverse. Since every hull element is a term in the generators, uniqueness follows.
For a genuinely ultraproduct proof, keep the distinct and choose a nonprincipal ultrafilter on . For each finite ordered subset , take
where is the ordered Fubini product of ultrafilters. Explicitly, a subset is large if its indicator is true after successively applying “for -almost every ” in the increasing coordinate order. Projection to any sublist has exactly that sublist's product ultrafilter. Hence for , pulling functions back along gives an elementary embedding by the Łoś theorem. These embeddings commute. Form their directed limit of elementary embeddings; each finite tuple lies in one stage, so induction on formulas makes the stage embeddings elementary.
At a stage containing , let be the class of the coordinate function . If , equality of these coordinate functions is small: for a fixed first coordinate there is only one possible equal second coordinate, and a singleton is not in . Thus . For any increasing , the truth of is the same nested ultrafilter test applied to , independent of the actual indices. This is precisely indiscernibility in the expanded language. Its Skolem hull, and the term-transport construction above, finish the second proof. Both constructions give the required model and the extended index automorphisms.

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