Vaught's conjecture for theories of discretely ordered structures

Abstract

Let T be a countable complete first-order theory with a definable, infinite, discrete linear order. We prove that T has continuum-many countable models. The proof is purely first-order, but raises the question of Borel completeness of T.

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