Almost-Free Finite Covers

DOI10.1080/00927870802502670MaRDI QIDQ3644341zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Elisabetta Pastori

Publication date 4 November 2009

Published in Communications in Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0705.4558

zbMATH Keywords

binding groupsfibre groupsfinite coversinfinite permutation groupsmodel theorypermutation structures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other model constructions (03C30) Categoricity and completeness of theories (03C35) General theory for infinite permutation groups (20B07) Infinite automorphism groups (20B27)

Abstract: Finite covers are a technique for building new structures from simpler ones. The original motivation to study finite covers is in the Ladder theorem of Zilber which describes how totally categorical structures are built from strictly minimal sets by a sequence of covers. Let W be a first-order structure and r be an Aut(W)-congruence on W. In this paper we define the almost-free finite covers of W with respect to r, and we show how to construct them. These are a generalization of free finite covers. A consequence of a result of Evans and Hrushovski in the paper "On the automorphism groups of finite covers" is that any finite cover of W with binding groups all equal to a simple non-abelian permutation group is almost-free with respect to some r on W. Our main result gives a description (up to isomorphism) in terms of the Aut(W)-congruences on W of the kernels of principal finite covers of W with bindings groups equal at any point to a simple non-abelian regular permutation group G. Then we analyze almost-free finite covers of the set of ordered n-tuples of distinct elements from a countable set Omega, regarded as a structure with automorphism group equal to the Sym(Omega) and we show a result of biinterpretability.

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