Superstable groups of finite rank without pseudoplanes
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Superstable groups of finite rank without pseudoplanes
zbMATH Open document ID: 0608.03010
DOI: 10.1016/0168-0072(86)90039-4
published in: Annals of Pure and Applied Logic
publication date: 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
review text: The author conjectures in this paper that every stable group whose theory does not type-interpret a pseudoplane (*) is abelian-by-finite and proves the conjecture for superstable groups of finite Morley rank. Since then he and \textit{U. Hrushovski} have proved the whole conjecture [Logic Colloquium '85, 233-244 (1987)]. In their paper there is the proof that a theory satisfies (*) if and only if it is weakly normal (also called: 1-based), which is a notion of pure stability theory and it is in fact this characterization of (*) which is used here. Examples of weakly normal theories are: \(\omega\)-categorical superstable theories [\textit{G. Cherlin}, \textit{L. Harrington}, \textit{A. H. Lachlan}, Ann. Pure Appl. Logic 28, 103-135 (1985; Zbl 0566.03022)] and superstable non \(\omega\)-stable unidimensional theories [\textit{S. Buechler}, ibid. 30, 83-94 (1986)]. Thus the result given here generalizes in particular the theorem of \textit{W. Baur}, \textit{G. Cherlin} and \textit{A. Macintyre} that \(\omega\)-categorical \(\omega\)-stable groups are abelian-by-finite [J. Algebra 57, 407-440 (1979; Zbl 0401.03012)].
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 03C60
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 03C45
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 20A15
zbMATH DE Number: 3983147
zbMATH Keywords: weakly normal groups
zbMATH Keywords: one-based theories
zbMATH Keywords: stable group
zbMATH Keywords: abelian-by- finite
zbMATH Keywords: superstable groups of finite Morley rank
author: Anand Pillay
reviewed by: Chantal Berline
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
full work available at URL: 0168-0072(86)90039-4
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