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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