$SOP_2 = SOP_3$

The classes of SOP_2 and SOP_3 first-order theories coincide. This answers a question of Džamonja and Shelah from 2004.

The new content is $SOP_2 \Rightarrow SOP_3$; the converse implication was known from the start. Dzamonja and Shelah asked whether either implication in $SOP_3 \Rightarrow SOP_2 \Rightarrow SOP_1$ reverses: Mutchnik answered the second ($SOP_1 = SOP_2$), and this answers the first, collapsing the bottom of the hierarchy to $SOP_1 = SOP_2 = SOP_3$. The $SOP_n$ hierarchy for $n \ge 3$ remains, as does everything above it.