Groups of mixed type (Q5906777)

The paper under review deals with groups of finite Morley rank. The current state of the structure theory of groups of finite Morley rank is presented in the book by \textit{A. Borovik, A. Nesin} [Groups of finite Morley rank, Clarendon Press, Oxford (1994; Zbl 0816.20001)]. The main stimulus in the field is the open Cherlin-Zil'ber Conjecture which proposes that infinite simple groups of finite Morley rank are algebraic groups over algebraically closed fields. The authors present a program of investigation of groups of finite Morley rank which gives an approach to this problem. The approach is inspired by the ideas from finite group theory developed in the classification of finite simple groups. The main result of the paper is a proof of a special case of the following conjecture (which is a part of the program and which should be true if the Cherlin-Zil'ber Conjecture is true): a simple group of finite Morley rank cannot be of mixed type. Here a group of finite Morley rank is said to be of mixed type if it is neither of odd type nor of even type; it is called of odd type if its Sylow subgroups are of bounded exponent; it is called of even type if the connected component of any of its Sylow subgroups is divisible abelian. Specifically, the authors prove the conjecture for the so called tame \(K^*\)-groups; these groups naturally arise when one considers minimal counterexamples to certain versions of the Cherlin-Zil'ber Conjecture.