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Groupoids, imaginaries and internal covers
Let be a first-order theory. A correspondence is established between
internal covers of models of and definable groupoids within . We also
consider amalgamations of independent diagrams of algebraically closed
substructures, and find strong relation between: covers, uniqueness for
3-amalgamation, existence of 4-amalgamation, imaginaries of T^\si, and
definable groupoids. As a corollary, we describe the imaginary elements of
families of finite-dimensional vector spaces over pseudo-finite fields.Comment: Local improvements; thanks to referee of Turkish Mathematical
Journal. First appeared in the proceedings of the Paris VII seminar:
structures alg\'ebriques ordonn\'ee (2004/5
Stable domination and independence in algebraically closed valued fields
We seek to create tools for a model-theoretic analysis of types in
algebraically closed valued fields (ACVF). We give evidence to show that a
notion of 'domination by stable part' plays a key role. In Part A, we develop a
general theory of stably dominated types, showing they enjoy an excellent
independence theory, as well as a theory of definable types and germs of
definable functions. In Part B, we show that the general theory applies to
ACVF. Over a sufficiently rich base, we show that every type is stably
dominated over its image in the value group. For invariant types over any base,
stable domination coincides with a natural notion of `orthogonality to the
value group'. We also investigate other notions of independence, and show that
they all agree, and are well-behaved, for stably dominated types. One of these
is used to show that every type extends to an invariant type; definable types
are dense. Much of this work requires the use of imaginary elements. We also
show existence of prime models over reasonable bases, possibly including
imaginaries
Definable equivalence relations and zeta functions of groups
We prove that the theory of the -adics admits elimination
of imaginaries provided we add a sort for for each . We also prove that the elimination of
imaginaries is uniform in . Using -adic and motivic integration, we
deduce the uniform rationality of certain formal zeta functions arising from
definable equivalence relations. This also yields analogous results for
definable equivalence relations over local fields of positive characteristic.
The appendix contains an alternative proof, using cell decomposition, of the
rationality (for fixed ) of these formal zeta functions that extends to the
subanalytic context.
As an application, we prove rationality and uniformity results for zeta
functions obtained by counting twist isomorphism classes of irreducible
representations of finitely generated nilpotent groups; these are analogous to
similar results of Grunewald, Segal and Smith and of du Sautoy and Grunewald
for subgroup zeta functions of finitely generated nilpotent groups.Comment: 89 pages. Various corrections and changes. To appear in J. Eur. Math.
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On finite imaginaries
We study finite imaginaries in certain valued fields, and prove a conjecture
of Cluckers and Denef.Comment: 15p
Quantum Harmonic Oscillator as a Zariski Geometry
We carry out a model-theoretic analysis of the Heisenberg algebra. To this
end, a geometric structure is associated to the Heisenberg algebra and is shown
to be a Zariski geometry. Furthermore, this Zariski geometry is shown to be
non-classical, in the sense that it is not interpretable in an algebraically
closed field. On assuming self-adjointness of the position and momentum
operators, one obtains a discrete substructure of which the original Zariski
geometry is seen as the complexification.Comment: some typos correcte
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