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Main Authors: Harrison-Trainor, Matthew, Kim, J. Thomas
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.07166
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  • Given a Borel class of trees, we show that there is a tree in that class whose Scott sentence is not too much more complicated than the definition of the class. In particular, if the class is definable by a $Π_α$ sentence, then there is a model of Scott rank at most $α+ 2$. This gives another proof-and one that does not require first proving Vaught's conjecture for trees-of the fact that trees are not faithfully Borel complete.