On Variants of o-Minimality
On Variants of o-Minimality
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关于 o-极小性的变体
DOI:
10.1016/0168-0072(95)00037-2
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发表时间:
1996
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通讯作者:
C. Steinhorn
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作者:
D. Macpherson;C. Steinhorn
The hypotheses of o-minimality and strong minimality have yielded rich modeltheoretic consequences. The models in each of these classes are characterized by the property that the definable sets in one variable in any elementarily equivalent structure are exactly those which are quantifier-free definable in some “basic” reduct of the given structure. In the case of o-minimal@ the reduct is a total order, and in strong minimal&y it is just equality. Our goal here is to begin to investigate what results hold if all the structures to be considered are appropriately “minimal” expansions of some other basic relational structure. We are guided in our work by the criteria that the basic structures have mathematically interesting minimal expansions and that the class of minimal expansions has some reasonable model theory analogous to that available in the motivating contexts.Our choice of basic structures is influenced by some as yet unpublished work on Jordan groups, due to Adeleke, Neumann, and the first author [l-3, 20]. We now sketch this work in some detail for readers unfamiliar with it. Let (G; X) be a permutation group, that is, G is a permutation group on a set X. If A cX, then GcA), respectively GIAl, denotes the pointwise, respectively setwise, stabilizer of A in G. The permutation group is called primitive if there does not exist a non-trivial G-invariant partition of X. It is said to be k-transitive, where k EN, if G is transitive on the set of ordered k-tuples of distinct elements of X, and is called highly transitive if it is k-transitive for all k E N. A subset A c X is a Jordan set for (G; X) if IAl> 1 and GCXiA) is transitive on A. The set A is called a proper Jordan set