Model theory and modules / Mike Prest

Prest, Mike

ISBN 10: 0521348331 / ISBN 13: 9780521348331

Published by Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1988

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Very good paperback copy; edges slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Physical description: xviii, 380 pages; 21cm. Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Preface; Contents; Introduction; Acknowledgements; Notations and conventions; Remarks on the development of the area; Section summaries; Chapter 1 Some preliminaries; 1.1 An introduction to model theory; 1.2 Injective modules and decomposition theorems; Chapter 2 Positive primitive formulas and the sets they define; 2.1 pp formulas; 2.2 pp-types; 2.3 Pure embeddings and pure-injective modules; 2.4 pp-elimination of quantifiers; 2.5 Immediate corollaries of pp-elimination of quantifiers; 2.6 Comparison of complete theories of modules2.Z pp formulas and types in abelian groups2.L Other languages; Chapter 3 Stability and totally transcendental modules; 3.1 Stability for modules; 3.2 A structure theorem for totally transcendental modules; part I; 3.A Abelian structures; Chapter 4 Hulls; 4.1 pp-essential embeddings and the construction of hulls; 4.2 Examples of hulls; 4.3 Decomposition of injective and pure-injective modules; 4.4 Irreducible types; 4.5 Limited and unlimited types; 4.6 A structure theory for totally transcendental modules; part II; 4.C Categoricity; 4.7 The space of indecomposablesChapter 5 Forking and ranks5.1 Forking and independence; 5.2 Ranks; 5.3 An algebraic characterisation of independence; 5.4 Independence when T = TXo; Chapter 6 Stability-theoretic properties of types; 6.1 Free parts of types and the stratified order; 6.2 Domination and the RK-order; 6.3 Orthogonality and the RK-order; 6.4 Regular types; 6.1 An example: injective modules over noetherian rings; 6.5 Saturation and pure-injective modules; 6.6 Multiplicity and strong types; Chapter 7 Superstable modules; 7.1 Superstable modules: the uncountable spectrum; 7.2 Modules of U-rank 1 7.3 Modules of finite U-rankChapter 8 The lattice of pp-types and free realisations of pp-types; 8.1 The lattice of pp-types; 8.2 Finitely generated pp-types; 8.3 pp-types and matrices; 8.4 Duality and pure-semisimple rings; Chapter 9 Types and the structure of pure-injective modules; 9.1 Minimal pairs; 9.2 Associated types; 9.3 Notions of isolation; 9.4 Neg-isolated types and elementary cogenerators; Chapter 10 Dimension and decomposition; 10.1 Existence of indecomposable direct summands; 10.2 Dimensions defined on lattices; 10.3 Modules with width 10.4 Classification for theories with dimension10.5 Krull dimension; 10.T Teq; 10.6 Dimension and height; 10.V Valuation rings; Chapter 11 Modules over artinian rings; 11.1 Pure-semisimple rings; 11.2 Pure-semisimple rings and rings of finite representation type; 11.3 Finite hulls over artinian rings; 11.4 Finite Morley rank and finite representation type; 11.P "Pathologies"; Chapter 12 Functor categories; 12.1 Functors defined from pp formulas; 12.2 Simple functors; 12.3 Embedding into functor categories; 12.P Pure global dimension and dimensions of functor categories Chapter 13 Modules over Artin algebrasSubjects: Model theory.Modules (Algebra)Model theory. Modules (Algebra) Model theory.Modules (Algebra)Théorie des modèles.Modules (Algèbre)Model theory. Modules (Algebra). Modèles, Théorie des. Modules (algèbre)MATHEMATICS General.Algebra Modules 1 Kg.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Model theory and modules / Mike Prest
• Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521348331
• ISBN 13: 9780521348331
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Weight: 1 kilogram

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Synopsis

Professor Prest is the first to address the topic of the development of the interplay between model theory and the theory of modules. In recent years the relationship between model theory and other branches of mathematics has led to many profound and intriguing results. This self-contained introduction to the subject introduces the requisite model theory and module theory as it is needed. It then develops the basic ideas of determining what can be said about modules using the information that may be expressed in first-order language. Later chapters discuss stability-theoretic aspects of modules, and structure and classification theorems over various types of rings and for certain classes of modules.

Review

"...absolutely essential to anyone with any interest in the subject matter, because of its comprehensiveness, currency, well-written style, and extensive bibliographical references." Journal of Symbolic Logic

"...contains a rich collection of concrete examples and exercises. It may be useful both as a reference book and as a texbook." Mathematical Reviews