indiscernible sequence?
Morley sequence?
Ramsey theorem?
Erdos-Rado theorem?
Ehrenfeucht-Fraïssé games (back-and-forth games)
Hrushovski construction?
generic predicate?
(Birkhoff’s HSP theorem)
Given a language generated by a set of (single-sorted) finitary operations, and a class of structures for . Then is the class of models for a set of universally quantified equations between terms of (a Lawvere theory) if and only if
See also at Lawvere theory – Characterization of examples
Here “closed under homomorphic images” means that if and are structures in the class, and is a homomorphism between them, then also its image is an element of the class.
The first-order analogue of HSP (theorem ) is the characterization (see e.g. Chang and Keisler’s original text (Chang-Keisler 66) on continuous model theory) of elementary classes of structures of structures: they’re precisely those closed under elementary substructures, elementary embeddings, ultraproducts, and ultraroots (if an ultrapower of something is in your class, that something was in your class.)
Chang, Keisler Continuous Model Theory, Princeton University Press (1966) [ISBN: 9780691079295]
Michael Barr, HSP type theorems in the category of posets, in: Proc. 7th International Conf. Mathematical Foundation of Programming Language Semantics, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 598 (1992) 221–234 [doi:10.1007/3-540-55511-0_11, pdf]
Michael Barr, Functorial semantics and HSP type theorems, Algebra Universalis 31 (1994) 223–251 [doi:10.1007/BF01236519, pdf, pdf]
Michael Barr, HSP subcategories of Eilenberg-Moore algebras, Theory Appl. Categories 10 18 (2002), 461–468 [tac:10-18]
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