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Counting Eilenberg/Schutzenberger-type definitions of pseudovarieties
See Eilenberg/Schutzenberger, On pseudovarieties for background on pseudovarieties. I've phrased things in terms of pairs-of-sets to avoid some annoying language about multisets. Also, I'm aware that ...
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Cantor-Bernstein phenomena for structures (and a "moderate zigzag" property)
My favorite proof of the Cantor-Bernstein theorem is the one that argues by "histories" - given injections $f:A\rightarrow B$ and $g:B\rightarrow A$, we identify each element of $A$ as ...
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What algebraic properties are preserved by $\mathbb{N}\leadsto\beta\mathbb{N}$?
Given a binary operation $\star$ on $\mathbb{N}$, we can naturally extend $\star$ to a semicontinuous operation $\widehat{\star}$ on the set $\beta\mathbb{N}$ of ultrafilters on $\mathbb{N}$ as ...
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How dangerous are set-size assumptions?
Many students' first introduction to the difference between classes and sets is in category theory, where we learn that some categories (such as the category of all sets) are class-sized but not set-...
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Is there any theorem achieving Conway's "Mathematician's Liberation Movement"
John Conway on in the appendix to part zero of ONAG describes a "Mathematician's Liberation Movement". The goal would be to give mathematicians the freedom to create mathematical theories with the ...
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Examples of algebras of inner elementary embeddings in model theory (as opposed to set theory)
The algebras of elementary embeddings have been studied from a set theoretic perspective and an algebraic perspective. I wonder is there is a purely model theoretic approach to the self-distributive ...