Indiscernible Subspaces and Minimal Wide Types

Abstract

We develop the machinery of indiscernible subspaces in continuous theories of expansions of Banach spaces, showing that any such theory has an indiscernible subspace and therefore an indiscernible set. We extend a result of Shelah and Usvyatsov by showing that a sequence of realizations of a (possibly unstable) minimal wide type $p$ is a Morley sequence in $p$ if and only if it is the orthonormal basis of an indiscernible subspace in $p$. We also give an example showing that minimal wide types do not generally have type-definable indiscernible subspaces (answering a question of Shelah and Usvyatsov), as well as an example showing that our result fails for non-minimal wide types, even in $\omega$-stable theories.