Fraïssé limits for a kind of "locally finite" Fraïssé class

20.05.2010 15:00 - 16:30

A. Brooke-Taylor (Bristol U, Uk and the Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research, Bristol, UK)

One of the nicest results about Fraïssé limits is the fact that, when the language is finite, one obtains a 0-1 law for members of the Fraïssé class.  We introduce a notion of locally finite Fraïssé class, for which the language is infinite, but the Fraïssé class acts like one for a finite language.  Examples include the Fraïssé classes of finite hypergraphs, finite simplicial complexes, and antichains on P(n) for finite n.  Amongst other results, we derive a 0-1 law for such structures; notably, ours differs from the known 0-1 law for simplicial complexes of Blass & Harary, as we use a different by still very natural choice of measure guided by the Fraïssé limit considerations.

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