The geometry of Hrushovski constructions, II. The strongly minimal case

We investigate the isomorphism types of combinatorial geometries arising from Hrushovski's flat strongly minimal structures and answer some questions from Hrushovski's original paper.

MODEL THEORY OF DIFFERENCE FIELDS, II: PERIODIC IDEALS AND THE TRICHOTOMY IN ALL CHARACTERISTICS

We classify all possible combinatorial geometries associated with one-dimensional difference equations, in any characteristic. The theory of difference fields admits a proper interpretation of itself, namely the reduct replacing the automorphism by its nth power. We show that these reducts admit a successively smoother theory as n becomes large; and we succeed in defining a limit structure to these reducts, or rather to the structure they induce on one-dimensional sets. This limit structure is shown to be a Zariski geometry in (roughly) the sense of Hrushovski and Zil'ber. The trichotomy is thus obtained for the limit structure as a consequence of a general theorem, and then shown to be inherited by the original theory. 2000 Mathematical Subject Classification: 03C60; (primary) 03C45, 03C98, 08A35, 12H10 (secondary)