Higher amalgamation properties in stable theories

Abstract: For a complete, stable theory

T

we construct, in a reasonably canonical way, a related stable theory

T^{*}

which has higher independent amalgamation properties over the algebraic closure of the empty-set. The theory

T^{*}

is an algebraic cover of

T

and we give an explicit description of the finite covers involved in the construction of

T^{*}

from

T

. This follows an approach of E. Hrushovski. If

T

is almost strongly minimal with a

0

-definable strongly minimal set, then we show that

T^{*}

has higher amalgamation over any algebraically closed subset.

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