The geometry of forking and groups of finite Morley rank

1995 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 1251-1259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anand Pillay
Keyword(s):  
Simple Group ◽  
Morley Rank ◽  
Minimal Sets ◽  
Finite Morley Rank ◽  
Categorical Group

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.

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
Keyword(s):  
Simple Group ◽  
Finite Rank ◽  
Conjugacy Classes ◽  
Morley Rank ◽  
Stable Group ◽  
The Third ◽  
Rank One ◽  
Preliminary Version ◽  
Finite Morley Rank ◽  
Basic Reference

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).

scholarly journals On Groups of Finite Morley Rank with Weakly Embedded Subgroups

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

scholarly journals Lascar and Morley ranks differ in differentially closed fields

1999 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 1280-1284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ehud Hrushovski ◽  
Thomas Scanlon
Keyword(s):  
Fundamental Issue ◽  
Morley Rank ◽  
Closed Fields ◽  
The Family ◽  
Finite Morley Rank

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.

Pseudoprojective strongly minimal sets are locally projective

1991 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 1184-1194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Buechler
Keyword(s):  
Predicate Symbol ◽  
Infinite Dimension ◽  
Elementary Extension ◽  
Morley Rank ◽  
Minimal Set ◽  
Unary Predicate ◽  
Minimal Sets

AbstractLet D be a strongly minimal set in the language L, and D′ ⊃ D an elementary extension with infinite dimension over D. Add to L a unary predicate symbol D and let T′ be the theory of the structure (D′, D), where D interprets the predicate D. It is known that T′ is ω-stable. We proveTheorem A. If D is not locally modular, then T′ has Morley rank ω.We say that a strongly minimal set D is pseudoprojective if it is nontrivial and there is a k < ω such that, for all a, b ∈ D and closed X ⊂ D, a ∈ cl(Xb) ⇒ there is a Y ⊂ X with a ∈ cl(Yb) and ∣Y∣ ≤ k. Using Theorem A, we proveTheorem B. If a strongly minimal set D is pseudoprojective, then D is locally projective.The following result of Hrushovski's (proved in §4) plays a part in the proof of Theorem B.Theorem C. Suppose that D is strongly minimal, and there is some proper elementary extension D1 of D such that the theory of the pair (D1, D) is ω1-categorical. Then D is locally modular.

scholarly journals Signalizers and balance in groups of finite Morley rank

2009 ◽  
Vol 321 (5) ◽  
pp. 1383-1406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Burdges
Keyword(s):  
Morley Rank ◽  
Finite Morley Rank

scholarly journals Tame minimal simple groups of finite Morley rank

2004 ◽  
Vol 276 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory Cherlin ◽  
Eric Jaligot
Keyword(s):  
Simple Groups ◽  
Morley Rank ◽  
Finite Morley Rank
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