{ "id": "math/0011167", "version": "v1", "published": "2000-11-21T22:01:43.000Z", "updated": "2000-11-21T22:01:43.000Z", "title": "The Karp complexity of unstable classes", "authors": [ "Michael C. Laskowski", "Saharon Shelah" ], "categories": [ "math.LO" ], "abstract": "A class K of structures is controlled if, for all cardinals lambda, the relation of L_{infty,lambda}-equivalence partitions K into a set of equivalence classes (as opposed to a proper class). We prove that the class of doubly transitive linear orders is controlled, while any pseudo-elementary class with the omega-independence property is not controlled.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2000-11-21T22:01:43.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "karp complexity", "unstable classes", "cardinals lambda", "equivalence classes", "proper class" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2000math.....11167L" } } }