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On the Generic Type of the Free Group

Logic 2011-04-15 v1

Abstract

We answer a question raised by Pillay, that is whether the infinite weight of the generic type of the free group is witnessed in FωF_{\omega}. We also prove that the set of primitive elements in finite rank free groups is not uniformly definable. As a corollary, we observe that the generic type over the empty set is not isolated. Finally, we show that uncountable free groups are not 1\aleph_1-homogeneous.

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@article{arxiv.1011.3178,
  title  = {On the Generic Type of the Free Group},
  author = {Rizos Sklinos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.3178},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

To appear in J. of Symbolic Logic