March 19
Roman Kossak,
CUNY
The lattice problem for models of PA
The lattice problem for models of PA is to determine which lattices can be represented either as lattices of elementary substructures of a model of PA or, more generally, which can be represented as lattices of elementary substructures of a model N that contain a given elementary substructure M of N. I will talk about the history of the problem, from the seminal paper of Haim Gaifman from 1976 and other early results to some recent work of Jim Schmerl. There is much to talk about.