Extremal models and direct integrals in affine logic

TL;DR

This paper develops a theory of extremal models in affine logic, proving a decomposition theorem for models of simplicial theories and exploring their connections to continuous logic and various mathematical structures.

Contribution

It introduces a general framework for measurable fields and direct integrals of metric structures, extending decomposition results to affine theories without separability assumptions.

Findings

Every model of a simplicial theory can be uniquely decomposed as a direct integral of extremal models.

Affine Bauer theories correspond to Keisler randomizations of continuous theories.

Complete simplicial theories are either Bauer or Poulsen, with a dichotomy classification.

Abstract

Affine logic is a fragment of continuous logic, introduced by Bagheri, in which only affine functions are allowed as connectives. This has the effect of endowing type spaces with the structure of compact convex sets. We study extremal models of affine theories (those that only realize extreme types), and the ways and conditions under which all models can be described from the extremal ones. We introduce and develop the general theory of measurable fields of metric structures and their direct integrals. One of our main results is an extremal decomposition theorem for models of simplicial theories, that is, affine theories whose type spaces form Choquet simplices. We prove that every model of a simplicial theory can be (uniquely) decomposed as a direct integral of extremal models. This generalizes known decomposition results (ergodic decomposition, tracial von Neumann factor decomposition), and moreover, holds without any separability hypothesis. Two extreme kinds of simplicial theories are Bauer theories, whose extreme types form a closed set, and Poulsen theories, whose extreme types form a dense set. We show that Keisler randomizations of continuous theories are, essentially, the same thing as affine Bauer theories. We establish a dichotomy result: a complete simplicial theory is either Bauer or Poulsen. As part of our analysis, we adapt many results and tools from continuous logic to the affine or extremal contexts (definability, saturation, type isolation, categoricity, etc.). We also provide a detailed study of the relations between continuous logic and affine logic. Finally, we present several examples of simplicial theories arising from theories in discrete logic, Hilbert spaces, probability measure-preserving systems, and tracial von Neumann algebras.