Asymmetric regular types

Abstract

We study asymmetric regular types. If $\frak p$ is regular and $A$-asymmetric then there exists a strict order such that Morley sequences in $\frak p$ over $A$ are strictly increasing (we allow Morley sequences to be indexed by elements of a linear order). We prove that for all $M\supseteq A$ maximal Morley sequences in $\frak p$ over $A$ consisting of elements of $M$ have the same (linear) order type, denoted by $\Inv_{\frak p,A}(M)$, which does not depend on the particular choice of the order witnessing the asymmetric regularity. In the countable case we determine all possibilities for $\Inv_{\frak p,A}(M)$: either it can be any countable linear order, or in any $M\supseteq A$ it is a dense linear order (provided that it has at least two elements). Then we study relationship between $\Inv_{\frak p,A}(M)$ and $\Inv_{\frak q,A}(M)$ when $\frak p$ and $\frak q$ are strongly regular, $A$-asymmetric, and such that $\frak p_{\strok A}$ and $\frak q_{\strok A}$ are not weakly orthogonal. We distinguish two kinds on non-orthogonality: bounded and unbounded. In the bounded case we prove that $\Inv_{\frak p,A}(M)$ and $\Inv_{\frak q,A}(M)$ are either isomorphic or anti-isomorphic. In the unbounded case, $\Inv_{\frak p,A}(M)$ and $\Inv_{\frak q,A}(M)$ may have distinct cardinalities but we prove that their Dedekind completions are either isomorphic or anti-isomorphic. We provide examples of all four situations.