The Bender method in groups of finite Morley rank.

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Abstract: Jaligot's Lemma states that the Fitting subgroups of distinct Borel subgroups do not intersect in a tame minimal simple groups of finite Morley. Such a strong result appears hopeless without tameness. Here we use the 0-unipotence theory to build a toolkit for the analysis of nonabelian intersections of Borel subgroups. As a demonstration, we show that any connected nilpotent subgroup of an intersection of Borel subgroups, in a nontame minimal simple group, must actually be abelian.


The Bender method in the classification of finite simple groups is the analysis of maximal subgroups containing the centralizer of an involution. In this technical paper the author studies maximal non-Abelian intersections of Borel subgroups of a group of finite Morley rank. Similar to the Bender uniqueness theorem, this yields information about normalizers of various subgroups of the intersection of two distinct maximal subgroups, but there is no hypothesis even on the existence of involutions. The proofs use in particular the author's notion of \(0,r\)-unipotency in characteristic \(0\); the results are applied in a joint paper with \textit{G. Cherlin} and \textit{E. Jaligot} [J. Algebra 314, No. 2, 581-612 (2007; see the following review Zbl 1130.20031)] to show that the Prüfer rank of a simple non-algebraic \(K^*\)-group of finite Morley rank of odd type is at most two.











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