We prove that many seemingly simple theories have Borel complete reducts. Specifically, if a countable theory has uncountably many complete 1-types, then it has a Borel complete reduct. Similarly, if $Th(M)$ is not small, then $M^{eq}$ has a Borel complete reduct, and if a theory $T$ is not $ω$-stable, then the elementary diagram of some countable model of $T$ has a Borel complete reduct.
We study the Borel-reducibility of isomorphism relations in the generalized Baire space $κ^κ$. In the main result we show for inaccessible $κ$, that if $T$ is a classifiable theory and $T'$ is superstable with the strong dimensional order property (S-DOP), then the isomorphism of models of $T$ is Borel reducible to the isomorphism of models of $T'$. In fact we show the consistency of the following: If $κ$ is inaccessible and $T$ is a superstable theory with S-DOP, then the isomorphism of models of $T$ is $Σ_1^1$-complete.
We develop general machinery to cast the class of potential canonical Scott sentences of an infinitary sentence $Φ$ as a class of structures in a related language. From this, we show that $Φ$ has a Borel complete expansion if and only if $S_\infty$ divides $Aut(M)$ for some countable model $M\models Φ$. Using this, we prove that for theories $T_h$ asserting that $\{E_n\}$ is a countable family of cross cutting equivalence relations with $h(n)$ classes, if $h(n)$ is uniformly bounded then $T_h$ is not Borel complete, providing a converse to Theorem~2.1 of \cite{LU}.
Borel completeness of the class of countable Steiner triple systems
School of Mathematics\ University 24 South Section 1, First Ring Road\ , Sichuan 610065 China;School of Mathematics;Statistics\ Jiaotong University 3 Shangyuancun\ , Beijing 100044 China
We are dealing with the complexity of the homeomorphism equivalence relation on some classes of metrizable compacta from the viewpoint of invariant descriptive set theory. We prove that the homeomorphism equivalence relation of absolute retracts in the plane is Borel bireducible with the isomorphism equivalence relation of countable graphs. In order to stress the sharpness of this result, we prove that neither the homeomorphism relation of locally connected continua in the plane nor the homeomorphism relation of absolute retracts in $\mathbb R^3$ is Borel reducible to the isomorphism relation …