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A model $\mathfrak B$ is ''J\'onsson'' if $|{\mathfrak B}|>\aleph_0$ and for every ${\mathfrak A}\prec {\mathfrak B}$, if $|{\mathfrak A}|=|{\mathfrak B}|$, then ${\mathfrak A}={\mathfrak B}$.
 
  
Gaifman and Knight independently showed in 1976 that there are Jonsson models of $PA$.
 
 
Jonsson models $M$ of $PA  of cardinality $\aleph_1$ are either $\aleph_1-like$ or are ''short'' i.e. there is an $a\in M$ such that the Skolem closure of $a$ is cofinal in $M$.  Each known Jonsson model realizes uncountably many  complete types.
 
 
Kossak has asked: Is there an $\aleph_1$-like Jonsson model $M\models\PA$ such that $|\{{\rm tp}(a): a\in M\}|=\aleph_0$?
 
 
If $M\models\PA$ is $\aleph_1$-like and recursively saturated,  then $|\{{\rm tp}(a): a\in M\}|=\aleph_0$, but $M$ is not Jonsson. Therefore, another related question is: Is there a  ''weakly Jonsson model'' $M\models \PA$, i.e. a recursively saturated model $M\models PA$ such that for  every recursively saturated $K\prec M$, if $|K|=|M|$, then $K=M$? Some results related to this question are in Kossak, Roman, ''Four problems concerning recursively saturated models of arithmetic''. Special Issue: Models of arithmetic. Notre Dame J. Formal Logic 36 (1995), no. 4, 519–530.
 

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