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Ultraproducts and metastability
journal contribution
posted on 2013-10-01, 00:00 authored by Jeremy AvigadJeremy Avigad, Jose IovinoGiven a convergence theorem in analysis, under very general conditions a model-theoretic compactness argument implies that there is a uniform bound on the rate of metastability. We illustrate with three examples from ergodic theory.