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I was studying Introduction to Stability Theory by Anand Pillay, where he begins proves the following lemma:

lemma 1.15let $p(\bar{x})\in S_n(M)$ and A $\supseteq M$. Then $p$ has an extension $q \in S_n(A)$ which is an heir of $p$.

where

  • $M$ is a model in some monster model
  • $S_n(M)$ (resp.$S_n(A)$) denotes the set of $n$-types from the language $M$ (resp.$A$)
  • In this scenario, $q$ is an heir of $p$ if every $\mathcal{L}(M)$ formula $\phi(\bar{x}, \bar{y})$ for which there is some tuple $\bar{a} \in A$ with $\phi(\bar{x}, \bar{a}) \in q$ there is some tuple $\bar{m} \in M$ for which $\phi(\bar{x}, \bar{m}) \in p$ (or using terminology defined in the book, $q$ is an heir of $p$ if every $\mathcal{L}(M)$ formula represented in $q$ is represented in $p$)

His strategy of the proof as follows (with details omited):

  1. Let $T(A)$ be the set of $\mathcal{L}(A)$-sentences true in the monster model.
  2. Define $\Sigma$ to be $T(A) \cup p \cup \{\neg \phi(\bar{x}, \bar{y}) \in \mathcal{L}(M), \bar{a} \in A, \phi(\bar{x}, \bar{y})$ is not represented in $p\}$.
  3. Pillay proves that $\Sigma$ is consistent.
  4. $\Sigma$ has an extension $\Sigma'$ which is a complete and consistent set of formulae with free variables $\bar{x}$ in $\mathcal{L}(A)$. As $T(A) \subseteq \Sigma'$, $\Sigma'$ can be considered as a type $q \in S_n(A)$. He then finishes off the proof (irrelevant to my confusion).

My confusion arises that $\Sigma'$ is considered a type, where it clearly contains sentences of $0$ free variables from $T(A)$. Question: what is going on here? Why is $\Sigma'$ considered an $n$-type when it clealy contains formulas of not $n$-free variables? Perhaps there's something obvious I've missed which allows us to kind of ignore the sentences?

On another note, I also believe in step $2$ of the proof, Pillay meant $\{\neg \phi(\bar{x}, \mathbf{\bar{a}}) \in \mathcal{L}(M), \bar{a} \in A, \phi(\bar{x}, \bar{y})$ is not represented in $p\}$ instead of $\{\neg \phi(\bar{x}, \bar{y}) \in \mathcal{L}(M), \bar{a} \in A, \phi(\bar{x}, \bar{y})$ is not represented in $p\}$ ?


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