Finite structures with few types. Annals of mathematics studies 152.

Cherlin, Gregory L.:

ISBN 10: 0691113319 / ISBN 13: 9780691113319

Published by Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2003

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Finite structures with few types. Annals of mathematics studies 152.
• Publisher: Princeton, Princeton University Press
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691113319
• ISBN 13: 9780691113319
• Binding: Hardcover
• Weight: 550 grams
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

This book applies model theoretic methods to the study of certain finite permutation groups, the automorphism groups of structures for a fixed finite language with a bounded number of orbits on 4-tuples. Primitive permutation groups of this type have been classified by Kantor, Liebeck, and Macpherson, using the classification of the finite simple groups.


Building on this work, Gregory Cherlin and Ehud Hrushovski here treat the general case by developing analogs of the model theoretic methods of geometric stability theory. The work lies at the juncture of permutation group theory, model theory, classical geometries, and combinatorics.


The principal results are finite theorems, an associated analysis of computational issues, and an "intrinsic" characterization of the permutation groups (or finite structures) under consideration. The main finiteness theorem shows that the structures under consideration fall naturally into finitely many families, with each family parametrized by finitely many numerical invariants (dimensions of associated coordinating geometries).


The authors provide a case study in the extension of methods of stable model theory to a nonstable context, related to work on Shelah's "simple theories." They also generalize Lachlan's results on stable homogeneous structures for finite relational languages, solving problems of effectivity left open by that case. Their methods involve the analysis of groups interpretable in these structures, an analog of Zilber's envelopes, and the combinatorics of the underlying geometries. Taking geometric stability theory into new territory, this book is for mathematicians interested in model theory and group theory.

About the Author

Gregory Cherlin is Professor of Mathematics at Rutgers University. He is the author of Model Theoretic Algebra: Selected Topics. Ehud Hrushovski is Professor of Mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.