Scott Mutchnik : Topic Seminar: Forking

Posted by Scott Mutchnik , part of the Logic Seminar.

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Nov. 4, 2025, 2 p.m.

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Abstract

We will have a research seminar this semester on forking, broadly construed, particularly in the setting of unstable first-order theories. Graduate students are particularly encouraged to attend. We will discuss examples of, and connections between, the definable Morley property and finite F_Mb, concentrating particularly on the case of the generic projective planes of Conant and Kruckman. We initially motivated these properties using the simple Kim-forking conjecture, and if there is enough time, we will begin discussing these properties' connection with pseudolinearity, which offers another motivation.