Slides for Henson's talk
April 5, 2013, in the UC Berkeley Logic Colloquium, entitled Continuous
model theory and Gurarij's universal homogeneous separable
Banach space are here.
This reports on recent joint work with Itai Ben Yaacov, and
details are in their paper Generic Orbits and Type Isolation
in the Gurarij space, a preprint of which is available in
the arXiv. The main new result is this: If X is the Gurarij
space and F is any finite dimensional Banach space, then there is
a linear isometry J of F into X such that X has the unique Hahn
Banach extension property over J(F) (introduced by Phelps, this
means that every linear functional on J(F) has a unique extension
to X with the same norm). Moreover, the set of all such
embeddings of F into X is a dense G-delta subset of the space of
all isometric linear embeddings of F into X, and it is a full
orbit of the action of the automorphism group of X on this
space. In W Lusky's paper proving the uniqueness of the
Gurarij space, he indicated a complicated proof of the special
case of this result in which F is one dimensional. Our proof
of the more general result uses conceptual tools from continuous
model theory together with some technical tools from convex
analysis.
LOGIC AND
MATHEMATICS 2011: this conference took place September 3-4, 2011, at UIUC. Invited speakers were Itai Ben Yaacov (Lyon),
Gregory Cherlin (Rutgers), Julien Melleray (Lyon), Anand Pillay
(Leeds), Christian Rosendal (UIC), David Sherman (Virginia), and
Henry Towsner (UCLA). For more information,
including the titles of talks and abstracts, look HERE.
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Research Interests of CWH:
General Interests: Mathematical logic and its
interactions with the rest of mathematics and computer science;
nonstandard analysis and other applications of model theory in
analysis and geometry; model theoretic properties of specific
structures in mathematics; logical decision problems and their
complexity.
Continuous First-order Logic and Model Theory of Metric
Structures: Henson's main research activity at the present
time is the development and application of the [0,1]-valued
continuous version of first-order logic for structures from
analysis, topology, geometry, etc; the properties of this logic
are closely parallel to those of first-order logic applied to
structures from algebra.
Articles on continuous first-order
logic and the model theory of metric structures:
Model
Theory for Metric Structures by Itai Ben Yaacov, Alexander
Berenstein, C. Ward Henson, and Alexander Usvyatsov; in Model Theory with Applications to
Algebra and Analysis, Vol. II, eds. Z. Chatzidakis, D.
Macpherson, A. Pillay, and A.Wilkie, Lecture Notes series of the
London Mathematical Society, No. 350, Cambridge University
Press, 2008, 315--427.
Model
Theory of Nakano Spaces; PhD thesis of L. Pedro
Poitevin. Defended in August, 2006, at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 76 pages. This thesis treats
some model-theoretic aspects of the Banach lattices known as
"Nakano spaces", which are generalizations of Lp spaces, and
their expansions obtained by adjoining the "convex modular" as
an additional predicate. In a loose sense, these are Lp
spaces in which p is allowed to vary randomly (with respect to a
given measure space) over a compact subset K of real numbers
>=1. When the measure space is required to be atomless
and the set of values of p that occur essentially is required to
be equal to K, it is shown that the corresponding theory in
continuous logic is complete and stable, and it admits
quantifier elimination when the convex modular is adjoined as a
predicate. (Stability is explicitly proved in the thesis
only when inf(K)>1; however, Poitevin's convexification
technique easily yields stability even when inf(K)=1.)
See also Modular functionals
and perturbations of Nakano spaces by Itai Ben Yaacov (Journal of Logic and Analysis1
(2009), 1--42) in which some questions are answered that were
left open in Poitevin's thesis. In particular, it is shown
in Ben Yaacov's paper that in any Nakano Banach lattice, the
modular is a definable predicate in the sense of continuous
first order logic. Furthermore, any Nakano space is
stable, even when inf(K) = 1.
Fraisse
Theory
for Metric Structures; PhD thesis of Konstantinos
Schoretsanitis. Defended in November, 2007, at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 81 pages. This
thesis takes some first steps toward developing analogues of
results of Fraisse in the setting of continuous first-order
logic. Let L be a continuous signature for bounded metric
structures that has a finite number of predicate symbols and
constants, but no function symbols. Results are proved in
this thesis that characterize separably categorical L-structures
whose theories admits quantifier elimination using properties of
the category of their finite substructures (with embeddings as
the morphisms). In the metric setting these
characterizations have a fundamental metric character that has
no counterpart in the results of Fraisse.
Model
Theory
of R-trees; PhD thesis of Sylvia Carlisle. Defended
in May, 2009, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
93 pages. This thesis treats the theory of R-trees as
metric structures in the setting of continuous first-order
logic. This theory has a model companion, the theory of
"richly branching" R-trees; the model companion theory has
quantifier elimination, is complete, and is stable (but not
superstable and not categorical in any cardinality). Most
of the results in this thesis concern the model theory of
isometries of R-trees. This divides between hyperbolic
isometries and elliptic ones, with each basic theory being
easily axiomatizable in continuous logic. It turns out
that each of these theories has a model companion and the
complete theories extending the model companions are also very
well behaved from the model-theoretic point of view; in
particular, they are stable and the independence relation for
each such complete theory is characterized in the thesis in a
natural way using familiar properties of R-trees and their
isometries.
Recent teaching by CWH:
Spring 2010:
Math 414; Mathematical Logic, basic
undergraduate course in this area.
Emma Jae Wilson (born November 8, 1997); Grace Demena Wilson (born March 25, 2000); Noah Riley Alonzo (born February 10, 2001); Sophia deMena Alonzo (born
September 28, 2003).