Building Models in Small Cardinals in Local Abstract Elementary Classes

Abstract There are many results in the literature where superstablity-like independence notions, without any categoricity assumptions, have been used to show the existence of larger models. In this paper we show that stability is enough to construct larger models for small cardinals assuming a mild locality condition for Galois types. Theorem 0. 1. Suppose <2^ ₀. Let {K} be an abstract elementary class with {LS} ({K}). Assume {K} has amalgamation in, no maximal model in, and is stable in. If {K} is (< ^+, ) -local, then {K} has a model of cardinality ^++. The set theoretic assumption that <2^ ₀ and model theoretic assumption of stability in can be weakened to the model theoretic assumptions that | {S}^na (M) |< 2^ ₀ for every M {K}_ and stability for -algebraic types in. This is a significant improvement of Theorem 0. 1, as the result holds on some unstable abstract elementary classes.