The Beth-closure of ℒ(Qα) is not finitely generated
Lauri Hella, Kerkko Luosto · Journal of Symbolic Logic · 1992
Abstract We prove that if ℵα is uncountable and regular, then the Beth-closure of ℒωω(Qα) is not a sublogic of ℒαω(Qn), where Qn is the class of all n-ary generalized quantifiers. In particular, B(ℒωω(Qα)) is not a sublogic of any finitely generated logic; i.e., there does not exist a finite set Q of Lindström quantifiers such that B(ℒωω(Qα)) ≤ ℒωω(Q).