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Past exam of the model theory and Gödel's incompleteness theorems course of the University of Oxford 2009 B 6 d i Solution by
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For cut types over the named rational order, choose an irrational real cut, for example , and formEvery finite subset is realized by a rational between its finite lower and upper bounds, so compactness makes it a consistent partial type; quantifier elimination for dense linear orders without endpoints makes these comparisons determine a complete type in the language naming all rationals. No rational realizes the cut, so omits it.
Add a new constant realizing this type and apply compactness, followed by downward Löwenheim-Skolem in the countable expanded language. This gives a countable model of realizing it. An isomorphism in fixes all named rationals and preserves realization of the cut, so it cannot be isomorphic to . Thus is not countably categorical. Omission by itself would need this additional realization-and-countable-model argument to establish noncategoricity.
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