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The Henson graphs: colorings and codings

By recent work of \citet{DobrinenICM} and \citet{Balko7} we know that every finite $G$ in the Henson graph $\mathbb{H}_{n+1}$ (the universal ultrahomogeneous $(n+1)$-clique free graph) has exact finite big Ramsey degree $k({G,n})$. That is, there is a positive integer $k({G,n})$ such that for each finite coloring $C$ of the copies of $G$ in $\mathbb{H}_{n+1}$, there is $\tilde{\mathbb{H}}$, a substructure of $\mathbb{H}_{n+1}$ and isomorphic to $\mathbb{H}_{n+1}$, such that in $\tilde{\mathbb{H}}$ at most $k({G,n})$ colors are used on the copies of $G$ in $\tilde{\mathbb{H}}$. Moreover, for exactness, for some coloring and all corresponding $\tilde{\mathbb{H}}$, all $k({G,n})$ colors are needed. The ultimate result here is that if $|G|\geq 2$, then there is a finite computable coloring $C$ such that, for all such $\tilde{\mathbb{H}}$, we have that $\tilde{\mathbb{H}}$ computes $\emptyset^{(|G|-1)}$ (and hence the halting set).

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Effective Prime Uniqueness

Assuming the obvious definitions (see paper) we show the a decidable model that is effectively prime is also effectively atomic. This implies that two effectively prime (decidable) models are computably isomorphic. This is in contrast to the theorem that there are two atomic decidable models which are not computably isomorphic. The implications of this work in reverse mathematics is that "effectively prime implies effectively atomic" holds in topped models. But due to an observation of David Belanger, "effectively prime implies effectively atomic" fails for some Scott sets. The reserve mathematical strength of "Prime Uniqueness" remains open.

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