We introduce a new device in the study of abstract elementary classes (AECs):
Galois Morleyization, which consists in expanding the models of the class with
a relation for every Galois type of length less than a fixed cardinal κ.
We show:
Theorem (The semantic-syntactic correspondence)
An AEC K is fully (<κ)-tame and type short if and only if Galois
types are syntactic in the Galois Morleyization.
This exhibits a correspondence between AECs and the syntactic framework of
stability theory inside a model. We use the correspondence to make progress on
the stability theory of tame and type short AECs. The main theorems are:
Theorem
Let K be a LS(K)-tame AEC with amalgamation. The following are
equivalent:
- K is Galois stable in some λ≥LS(K).
- K does not have the order property (defined in terms of Galois types).
- There exist cardinals μ and λ0 with $\mu \le \lambda_0 <
\beth_{(2^{LS(K)})^+}suchthatKisGaloisstableinany\lambda
\ge \lambda_0with\lambda = \lambda^{<\mu}.TheoremLetKbeafully(<\kappa)−tameandtypeshortAECwithamalgamation,\kappa = \beth_{\kappa} > LS (K).IfK$ is Galois stable, then the
class of κ-Galois saturated models of K admits an independence notion
((<κ)-coheir) which, except perhaps for extension, has the properties of
forking in a first-order stable theory.