Jeff Burdges : The generation principle in groups of finite Morley rank

Posted by , part of the Logic Seminar.

At

Dec. 10, 2008, 1 p.m.

In

SEO 612

Abstract

We will discuss the generation principle which says that the connected centralizers of the involutions in a four-group generate the whole connected group. The generation principle is one of the core structural properties in the generic case and much of the quasi-thin case, meaning these identifications results make significant use while the proof requires the full uniqueness case analysis. We give a shorter proof in the case that G has no unipotent torsion.

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