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Skolem hull (HullN(A))

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After choosing a Skolem function for each existential formula, the Skolem hull of A⊆N is the smallest subset containing A and closed under those functions. The Tarski-Vaught test makes it an elementary substructure of N, and in a countable language an infinite hull has cardinality at most ∣A∣+ℵ0​.

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