{ "id": "1906.04351", "version": "v1", "published": "2019-06-11T02:10:05.000Z", "updated": "2019-06-11T02:10:05.000Z", "title": "Bounds on Scott Ranks of Some Polish Metric Spaces", "authors": [ "William Chan" ], "categories": [ "math.LO" ], "abstract": "If $\\mathcal{N}$ is a proper Polish metric space and $\\mathcal{M}$ is any countable dense submetric space of $\\mathcal{N}$, then the Scott rank of $\\mathcal{N}$ in the natural first order language of metric spaces is countable and in fact at most $\\omega_1^{\\mathcal{M}} + 1$, where $\\omega_1^{\\mathcal{M}}$ is the Church-Kleene ordinal of $\\mathcal{M}$ (construed as a subset of $\\omega$) which is the least ordinal with no presentation on $\\omega$ computable from $\\mathcal{M}$. If $\\mathcal{N}$ is a rigid Polish metric space and $\\mathcal{M}$ is any countable dense submetric space, then the Scott rank of $\\mathcal{N}$ is countable and in fact less than $\\omega_1^{\\mathcal{M}}$.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2019-06-11T02:10:05.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "scott rank", "countable dense submetric space", "natural first order language", "rigid polish metric space", "proper polish metric space" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }