Dividing Lines between Positive Theories

Abstract: We give definitions of the properties OP, IP, $k$-TP, TP$_1$, $k$-TP$_2$, SOP$_1$, SOP$_2$ and SOP$_3$ in positive logic, and prove various implications and equivalences between them. We also provide a characterisation of stability in positive logic in analogy with the one in full first-order logic, both on the level of formulas and on the level of theories. For simple theories there are the classically equivalent definitions of not having TP and dividing having local character, which we prove to be equivalent in positive logic as well. Finally, we show that a thick theory $T$ has OP iff it has IP or SOP$_1$ and that $T$ has TP iff it has SOP$_1$ or TP$_2$, analogous to the well-known results in full first-order logic where SOP$_1$ is replaced by SOP in the former and by TP$_1$ in the latter. Our proofs of these final two theorems are new and make use of Kim-independence.