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ON MAXIMAL STABLE QUOTIENTS OF DEFINABLE GROUPS IN NIP THEORIES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

MIKE HASKEL
Affiliation:
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME NOTRE DAME, IN46556, USAE-mail:mike.haskel@gmail.com
ANAND PILLAY
Affiliation:
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME NOTRE DAME, IN46556, USA E-mail:apillay@nd.edu

Abstract

For G a group definable in a saturated model of a NIP theory T, we prove that there is a smallest type-definable subgroup H of G such that the quotient G / H is stable. This generalizes the existence of G00, the smallest type-definable subgroup of G of bounded index.

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Copyright © The Association for Symbolic Logic 2018 

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