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On groups interpretable in various valued fields

Logic 2024-04-09 v4 Group Theory

Abstract

We study infinite groups interpretable in three families of valued fields: VV-minimal, power bounded TT-convex, and pp-adically closed fields. We show that every such group GG has unbounded exponent and that if GG is dp-minimal then it is abelian-by-finite. Along the way, we associate with any infinite interpretable group an infinite type-definable subgroup which is definably isomorphic to a group in one of four distinguished sorts: the underlying valued field KK, its residue field k\mathbf{k} (when infinite), its value group Γ\Gamma, or K/OK/\mathcal{O}, where O\mathcal{O} is the valuation ring. Our work uses and extends techniques developed in [11] to circumvent elimination of imaginaries.

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@article{arxiv.2206.05677,
  title  = {On groups interpretable in various valued fields},
  author = {Yatir Halevi and Assaf Hasson and Ya'acov Peterzil},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.05677},
  year   = {2024}
}