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A first-order structure has finite-tuple homogeneity when any two finite tuples of the same parameter-free complete type are related by an automorphism. For countably infinite first-order structures this agrees with extension of finite partial elementary maps to automorphisms. Countable atomic models have this property by a back-and-forth method using isolating logical formulas. Uncountable atomic models can fail it.

A model $N$ of cardinality $\kappa$ is homogeneous when every partial elementary map between subsets of size less than $\kappa$ extends to an automorphism of $N$.

Assume every $S_n(T)$ is finite. Each of its points is isolated: choose, for every other type, a formula separating it from the given one, and conjoin the finitely many choices. Thus every finite tuple in every model has an isolated complete type. Moreover every complete type is realized in every model: its isolating formula is consistent with the complete theory, so the theory entails that the formula has a realization.

For clarity, here is the one-point extension argument needed for both remaining assertions. If tuples $\mathbf{a}$ and $\mathbf{b}$ in two models have the same complete type and $c$ is any new element in the first, let $\theta (\mathbf{x},y)$ isolate $\mathrm{tp}(\mathbf{a},c)$. The formula $\exists y\theta (\mathbf{x},y)$ belongs to the type of $\mathbf{a}$, hence also to that of $\mathbf{b}$. Choose $d$ with $\theta (\mathbf{b},d)$. This extends the tuple map to a partial elementary map. If $c$ is different from all earlier entries, the isolating type includes these disequalities, so $d$ is new as well.

Apply this argument alternately to the two enumerations of any two countable models. The resulting back-and-forth map is an isomorphism. Thus (ii) implies (i).

Choose any countable model $A$. The same back-and-forth argument, now within $A$, shows that any two tuples of the same complete type are related by an automorphism of a first-order structure. Conversely an automorphism preserves the type. Hence the orbits of $\mathrm{Aut}(A)$ on $A^n$ are exactly its complete $n$-types. There are finitely many of them for every $n$, so the automorphism group is an oligomorphic permutation group. Therefore (ii) also implies (iii).

A model is prime if it has an elementary embedding into every model of $T$. A model is atomic if every finite tuple realizes an isolated complete type over the empty set.

If $A$ is prime, the downward Löwenheim-Skolem theorem gives a countable model $M$ of $T$, and an elementary embedding $A\to M$ makes $A$ countable. If a tuple of $A$ realized a nonisolated type, the omitting types theorem would give a model of $T$ omitting that type. The prime embedding into it would preserve the tuple's full type and realize the omitted type, a contradiction. Thus a prime model is countable and atomic.

Conversely enumerate a countable atomic model as $a_0,a_1,\dots$, and take any $B\models T$. Build finite partial elementary maps into $B$. Suppose the current tuple $\bar{a}$ maps to $\bar{b}$. Choose a formula $\theta (\bar{x},y)$ isolating the type of $(\bar{a},a_n)$. The assertion $\exists y\theta (\bar{a},y)$ holds in $A$, so its counterpart holds at $\bar{b}$ in $B$ by partial elementarity. Choose a witness $b_n$. Since $\theta$ isolates the entire extended tuple type, the extended map is elementary on its finite domain; its equality formulas ensure distinct Elements remain distinct. The union is a total elementary embedding $A\to B$. The empty initial tuple works because $T$ is complete. Hence

Here fixed means fixed setwise: $\sigma [D]=D$ for every structure automorphism $\sigma$, not that each point must be fixed individually. A parameter-free definable set has this invariance by automorphism invariance of parameter-free definability.

For the converse, first establish the needed saturation implies homogeneity step. In a countable omega-saturated model, a finite partial elementary map can be extended to include any prescribed additional element in its domain. Transfer the element's complete type over the old finite domain along the map. Each finite part of this transported type has a witness because the old map is elementary; the omega-saturated model realizes the full transported type. The inequalities in the type maintain injectivity. Apply the same construction to the inverse map to enlarge the range. Alternating these steps through an enumeration of the countable domain is the back-and-forth method, giving a structure automorphism. In particular, any two elements with the same complete type over the empty set are related by a structure automorphism.

Assume now that $D$ is finite and invariant, and fix $a\in D$. All realizations in $A$ of $p_a=\mathrm{tp}(a/\varnothing )$ belong to $D$, by the preceding homogeneity and the invariance assumption. Suppose that no parameter-free first-order formula ${\theta }_a\in p_a$ has all its realizations in $D$. Then every finite subset ofis satisfiable in $A$: conjoin the finitely many first-order formulas from $p_a$, and use the assumed absence of a defining neighbourhood inside $D$ to find a witness outside $D$. This is a partial type over the finite parameter set $D$. The omega-saturated model would realize it by an element outside $D$ with the same empty-set type as $a$, a contradiction. Hence such a ${\theta }_a$ does exist.

There are only finitely many $a\in D$, soFor $D=\varnothing$, use $x\ne x$. Thus finite invariant sets in a countable saturated structure are definable. Finiteness is used twice: the extra parameters form a finite set, and the final disjunction is a first-order formula rather than an infinite disjunction.

A $\kappa$-saturated model has the one-point extension property for partial elementary maps of size below $\kappa$: transport the type of the new element through the map and realize it by saturation. This is $\kappa$-homogeneity; back-and-forth gives the corresponding automorphisms when cardinalities permit.

A universal homogeneous model realizes every type over a small parameter set. Embed a small model containing a realization into the universal model, then use homogeneity to move the embedded parameters back to the original ones.