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Past exam of the model theory course of the University of Oxford 2011 2 c iii Solution by
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Take a countable elementary substructure of containing the named constant, using the Downward Lowenheim-Skolem theorem. Its reduct has infinitely many singleton and doubleton classes. In particular it contains the partner of each of its non-singleton elements, and its interpretation of is exactly the singleton-class predicate.
Choose new distinct elements . DefineIn , make a new singleton class. In , make a new doubleton class; keep every old class of unchanged. All three reducts are first-order models of the complete theory, and .
Expand by interpreting as singleton-class membership and retaining the original named constant from . The resulting countable first-order structures are each isomorphic to : all have infinitely many classes of each size, and the bijections of classes can be chosen to preserve the constant and its class. Hence they are first-order models of . Both inclusions and are genuine structure embeddings, since no class meeting was changed. The given quantifier elimination, together with the preceding implication to first-order model completeness, yieldsTaking reducts gives . Butso . There is no conflict with quantifier elimination in the expanded language: changes truth value, so is not a substructure of .
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