Jonsson models

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A model B is J\'onsson if |B|>0 and for every AB, if |A|=|B|, then A=B.

Gaifman and Knight independently showed in 1976 that there are Jonsson models of PA.

Jonsson models M of PA of cardinality 1 are either 1like or are short i.e. there is an aM 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 1-like Jonsson model MPA such that |{tp(a):aM}|=0?

If MPA is 1-like and recursively saturated, then |{tp(a):aM}|=0, but M is not Jonsson. Therefore, another related question is: Is there a weakly Jonsson model MPA, i.e. a recursively saturated model MPA such that for every recursively saturated KM, 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.