Weakly minimal groups with a new predicate

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Abstract: Fix a weakly minimal (i.e., superstable U-rank 1) structure mathcalM. Let mathcalM∗ be an expansion by constants for an elementary substructure, and let A be an arbitrary subset of the universe M. We show that all formulas in the expansion (mathcalM∗,A) are equivalent to bounded formulas, and so (mathcalM,A) is stable (or NIP) if and only if the mathcalM-induced structure AmathcalM on A is stable (or NIP). We then restrict to the case that mathcalM is a pure abelian group with a weakly minimal theory, and AmathcalM is mutually algebraic (equivalently, weakly minimal with trivial forking). This setting encompasses most of the recent research on stable expansions of (mathbbZ,+). Using various characterizations of mutual algebraicity, we give new examples of stable structures of the form (mathcalM,A). Most notably, we show that if (G,+) is a weakly minimal additive subgroup of the algebraic numbers, AsubseteqG is enumerated by a homogeneous linear recurrence relation with algebraic coefficients, and no repeated root of the characteristic polynomial of A is a root of unity, then (G,+,B) is superstable for any BsubseteqA.



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