An infinite superstable group has infinitely many conjugacy classes

1991 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 618-623 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Aguzarov ◽  
R. E. Farey ◽  
J. B. Goode

We begin with some notes concerning the genesis of this paper. A preliminary version of it was written by the third author, who was moved by the desire to correct a mistake in Poizat [1987, p. 97], and to refresh some other minor results of the same book, concerning equations which are satisfied generically in a stable group. The book in question will be considered here as our basic reference on stable groups, and these other results will be discussed elsewhere.This preliminary version contained §§1, 2 and 3 of the present paper, restricted to the context of groups of finite Morley rank. It was observed that a counterexample of finite rank to the above theorem would be an extreme refutation of a conjecture by Zil'ber and Cherlin (cyrillic alphabet order), that may be not so solid as was believed some time ago, which states that a simple group of finite rank should be an algebraic group. Additional motivation for the problem was seen in Reineke's theorem (Reineke [1975]), stating that a connected group of rank one is abelian—the cornerstone for the study of superstable groups—whose proof rests on the fact that a group with two conjugacy classes either has only two elements, or has infinite chains of centralizers (a property that violates stability).

2005 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 661-663 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerry Gagelman

AbstractIt is proved that all groups of finite U-rank that have the descending chain condition on definable subgroups are totally transcendental. A corollary is that any stable group that is definable in an o-minimal structure is totally transcendental of finite Morley rank.


1994 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 283-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandre V. Borovik ◽  
Ali Nesin

One of the purposes of this paper is to prove a partial Schur-Zassenhaus Theorem for groups of finite Morley rank.Theorem 2. Let G be a solvable group of finite Morley rank. Let π be a set of primes, and let H ⊲ G a normal π-Hall subgroup. Then H has a complement in G.This result has been proved in [1] with the additional assumption that G is connected, and thought to be generalized in [2] by the authors of the present article. Unfortunately in the last section of the latter paper there is an irrepairable mistake. Here we give a new proof of the Schur-Zassenhaus Theorem using the results of [2] up to the last section and a new result that we are going to state below.The second author has shown in [11] that a nilpotent ω-stable group is the central product of a divisible subgroup and a subgroup of bounded exponent, generalizing a well-known result of Angus Macintyre about abelian groups [8]. One could ask a similar question for solvable groups: are they a product of two subgroups, one divisible, one of bounded exponent? One is allowed to be hopeful because of the well-known decomposition of the connected solvable algebraic groups over algebraically closed fields as the product of the unipotent radical and a torus.


1995 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 1251-1259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anand Pillay

AbstractThe notion of CM-triviality was introduced by Hrushovski, who showed that his new strongly minimal sets have this property. Recently Baudisch has shown that his new ω1-categorical group has this property. Here we show that any group of finite Morley rank definable in a CM-trivial theory is nilpotent-by-finite, or equivalently no simple group of finite Morley rank can be definable in a CM-trivial theory.


Author(s):  
Constanze Liaw ◽  
Sergei Treil ◽  
Alexander Volberg

Abstract The classical Aronszajn–Donoghue theorem states that for a rank-one perturbation of a self-adjoint operator (by a cyclic vector) the singular parts of the spectral measures of the original and perturbed operators are mutually singular. As simple direct sum type examples show, this result does not hold for finite rank perturbations. However, the set of exceptional perturbations is pretty small. Namely, for a family of rank $d$ perturbations $A_{\boldsymbol{\alpha }}:= A + {\textbf{B}} {\boldsymbol{\alpha }} {\textbf{B}}^*$, ${\textbf{B}}:{\mathbb C}^d\to{{\mathcal{H}}}$, with ${\operatorname{Ran}}{\textbf{B}}$ being cyclic for $A$, parametrized by $d\times d$ Hermitian matrices ${\boldsymbol{\alpha }}$, the singular parts of the spectral measures of $A$ and $A_{\boldsymbol{\alpha }}$ are mutually singular for all ${\boldsymbol{\alpha }}$ except for a small exceptional set $E$. It was shown earlier by the 1st two authors, see [4], that $E$ is a subset of measure zero of the space $\textbf{H}(d)$ of $d\times d$ Hermitian matrices. In this paper, we show that the set $E$ has small Hausdorff dimension, $\dim E \le \dim \textbf{H}(d)-1 = d^2-1$.


Author(s):  
Clément Luneau ◽  
Jean Barbier ◽  
Nicolas Macris

Abstract We consider a statistical model for finite-rank symmetric tensor factorization and prove a single-letter variational expression for its asymptotic mutual information when the tensor is of even order. The proof applies the adaptive interpolation method originally invented for rank-one factorization. Here we show how to extend the adaptive interpolation to finite-rank and even-order tensors. This requires new non-trivial ideas with respect to the current analysis in the literature. We also underline where the proof falls short when dealing with odd-order tensors.


1999 ◽  
Vol 211 (2) ◽  
pp. 409-456 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tuna Altınel ◽  
Alexandre Borovik ◽  
Gregory Cherlin

1999 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 1280-1284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ehud Hrushovski ◽  
Thomas Scanlon

We note here, in answer to a question of Poizat, that the Morley and Lascar ranks need not coincide in differentially closed fields. We will approach this through the (perhaps) more fundamental issue of the variation of Morley rank in families. We will be interested here only in sets of finite Morley rank. Section 1 consists of some general lemmas relating the above issues. Section 2 points out a family of sets of finite Morley rank, whose Morley rank exhibits discontinuous upward jumps. To make the base of the family itself have finite Morley rank, we use a theorem of Buium.


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