Neostability in countable homogeneous metric spaces
Abstract: Given a countable, totally ordered commutative monoid $\mathcal{R}=(R,\oplus,\leq,0)$, with least element $0$, there is a countable, universal and ultrahomogeneous metric space $\mathcal{U}\mathcal{R}$ with distances in $\mathcal{R}$. We refer to this space as the $\mathcal{R}$-Urysohn space, and consider the theory of $\mathcal{U}\mathcal{R}$ in a binary relational language of distance inequalities. This setting encompasses many classical structures of varying model theoretic complexity, including the rational Urysohn space, the free $n{\text{th}}$ roots of the complete graph (e.g. the random graph when $n=2$), and theories of refining equivalence relations (viewed as ultrametric spaces). We characterize model theoretic properties of $\text{Th}(\mathcal{U}_\mathcal{R})$ by algebraic properties of $\mathcal{R}$, many of which are first-order in the language of ordered monoids. This includes stability, simplicity, and Shelah's SOP$_n$-hierarchy. Using the submonoid of idempotents in $\mathcal{R}$, we also characterize superstability, supersimplicity, and weak elimination of imaginaries. Finally, we give necessary conditions for elimination of hyperimaginaries, which further develops previous work of Casanovas and Wagner.
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