Model theory, Keisler measures, and groups - Ehud Hrushovski, Ya’acov Peterzil and Anand Pillay, Groups, measures, and the NIP. Journal of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 21 (2008), no. 2, pp. 563–596. - Ehud Hrushovski and Anand Pillay, On NIP an
Model theory, Keisler measures, and groups - Ehud Hrushovski, Ya’acov Peterzil and Anand Pillay, Groups, measures, and the NIP. Journal of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 21 (2008), no. 2, pp. 563–596. - Ehud Hrushovski and Anand Pillay, On NIP an
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模型理论、凯斯勒测度和群 - Ehud Hrushovski、Yaacov Peterzil 和 Anand Pillay,群、测度和 NIP。
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10.1017/bsl.2018.68
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2018
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Chernikov, Artem
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Traditionally model theory investigates definable sets in models of first-order theories. Towards this purpose, it is often more instructive to study types, ie, ultrafilters on the boolean algebra of definable sets. While the compact space of types contains the same information by Stone duality, working with types and realizing them in larger saturated models allows to work with “generic” points of definable sets (eg, nonstandard analysis), and provides an important method at the core of both pure and applied model theory. Types can be viewed as a special case of Keisler measures, or finitely additive probability measures on the Boolean algebra of definable sets (so a type is a Keisler measure taking values in {0, 1}). Given the general mathematical importance of measure theory, it is remarkable in retrospective that these measures have received little attention in model theory until recently. They were first considered in HJ Keisler,“Measures and forking”, Annals of Pure and Applied Logic 45 (1987), very insightfully generalizing aspects of Shelah’s forking from types in stable theories to measures in NIP theories. Some follow up work in the-categorical setting appeared in the early 90’s, by Albert and Ensley, but seemed to go largely unnoticed. Karpinski and Macyntire, concerned with applications to neural networks, studied definability properties of certain Keisler measures in o-minimal structures and in the p-adics in “Connections between model theory and algebraic and analytic geometry”, 149–177, Quad. Mat., 6, Dept. Math., Seconda Univ. Napoli, Caserta, 2000. Recent decades, however, witnessed resurgence of analytic objects in model theory, and Keisler measures in particular, motivated by several intertwined lines of research. We review three consecutive articles that played a crucial role in these developments.