Author:
Chernikov Artem,Hempel Nadja
Abstract
Abstract
We continue the study of n-dependent groups, fields and related structures, largely motivated by the conjecture that every n-dependent field is dependent. We provide evidence toward this conjecture by showing that every infinite n-dependent valued field of positive characteristic is henselian, obtaining a variant of Shelah’s Henselianity Conjecture in this case and generalizing a recent result of Johnson for dependent fields. Additionally, we prove a result on intersections of type-definable connected components over generic sets of parameters in n-dependent groups, generalizing Shelah’s absoluteness of
$G^{00}$
in dependent theories and relative absoluteness of
$G^{00}$
in
$2$
-dependent theories. In an effort to clarify the scope of this conjecture, we provide new examples of strictly
$2$
-dependent fields with additional structure, showing that Granger’s examples of non-degenerate bilinear forms over dependent fields are
$2$
-dependent. Along the way, we obtain some purely model-theoretic results of independent interest: we show that n-dependence is witnessed by formulas with all but one variable singletons; provide a type-counting criterion for
$2$
-dependence and use it to deduce
$2$
-dependence for compositions of dependent relations with arbitrary binary functions (the Composition Lemma); and show that an expansion of a geometric theory T by a generic predicate is dependent if and only if it is n-dependent for some n, if and only if the algebraic closure in T is disintegrated. An appendix by Martin Bays provides an explicit isomorphism in the Kaplan-Scanlon-Wagner theorem.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Computational Mathematics,Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics,Geometry and Topology,Mathematical Physics,Statistics and Probability,Algebra and Number Theory,Theoretical Computer Science,Analysis
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