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Reduct need not preserve uncountable categoricity

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Let a language partition the universe into two infinite unary predicates and include a bijection between them. Its complete theory is categorical in every infinite cardinal. The reduct forgetting the bijection is not categorical in any uncountable cardinal, because the two infinite parts can have different cardinalities.

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  • Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2021 / iii / Paper 144 / 3 / c / Solution

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