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The geometry of forking and groups of finite Morley rank

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Anand Pillay*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, E-mail: anand.pillay.1@nd.edu

Abstract

The 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.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1995

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