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We solve two problems from the paper "On maximal stable quotients of definable groups in NIP theories" by M. Haskel and A. Pillay, which concern maximal stable quotients of groups type-definable in NIP theories. The first result says that…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-05-02 Krzystof Krupiński , Adrián Portillo

We introduce and study Hopf monads on autonomous categories (i.e., monoidal categories with duals). Hopf monads generalize Hopf algebras to a non-braided (and non-linear) setting. Indeed, any monoidal adjunction between autonomous…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alain Bruguières , Alexis Virelizier

A graph class $\mathscr{C}$ is called monadically stable if one cannot interpret, in first-order logic, arbitrary large linear orders in colored graphs from $\mathscr{C}$. We prove that the model checking problem for first-order logic is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Jan Dreier , Ioannis Eleftheriadis , Nikolas Mählmann , Rose McCarty , Michał Pilipczuk , Szymon Toruńczyk

We introduce the notion of hereditary G-compactness (with respect to interpretation). We provide a sufficient condition for a poset to not be hereditarily G-compact, which we use to show that any linear order is not hereditarily G-compact.…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-03-11 Tomasz Rzepecki

We prove that any type in an NIP theory can be decomposed into a stable part (a generically stable partial type) and a distal-like quotient.

Logic · Mathematics 2017-08-03 Pierre Simon

We study invariant types in NIP theories. Amongst other things: we prove a definable version of the (p,q)-theorem in theories of small or medium directionality; we construct a canonical retraction from the space of M-invariant types to that…

Logic · Mathematics 2015-11-10 Pierre Simon

We study Keisler measures in strongly n-distal NIP theories, generalizing some results of Simon and Chernikov-Starchenko for distal theories and addressing some questions of Walker. In particular, we establish a hypergraph version of the…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Artem Chernikov , Francis Westhead

The aim of this note is to determine whether certain non-o-minimal expansions of o-minimal theories which are known to be NIP, are also distal. We observe that while tame pairs of o-minimal structures and the real field with a discrete…

Logic · Mathematics 2017-04-21 Philipp Hieronymi , Travis Nell

We prove that externally definable sets in first order NIP theories have honest definitions, giving a new proof of Shelah's expansion theorem. Also we discuss a weak notion of stable embeddedness true in this context. Those results are then…

Logic · Mathematics 2011-09-16 Artem Chernikov , Pierre Simon

We will determine all infinite $2$-locally finite groups as well as infinite $2$-groups with planar subgroup graph and show that infinite groups satisfying the chain conditions containing an involution do not have planar embeddings. Also,…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-03-04 Mehdi Rajabian , Mohammad Farrokhi Derakhshandeh Ghouchan , Ahmad Erfanian

A conjecture in algorithmic model theory predicts that the model-checking problem for first-order logic is fixed-parameter tractable on a hereditary graph class if and only if the class is monadically dependent. Originating in model theory,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-28 Jan Dreier , Nikolas Mählmann , Szymon Toruńczyk

We consider expansions of Presburger arithmetic with families of monadic polynomial predicates. (Examples of such predicates are the set of perfect squares, or the set of integers of the form $2n^3-5n+3$, etc.) Although the full attendant…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Piotr Bacik , Joris Nieuwveld , Joël Ouaknine , Mihir Vahanwala , Madhavan Venkatesh , Emil Rugaard Wieser

Monadic stability generalizes many tameness notions from structural graph theory such as planarity, bounded degree, bounded tree-width, and nowhere density. The sparsification conjecture predicts that the (possibly dense) monadically stable…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Nikolas Mählmann , Sebastian Siebertz

We try to understand complete types over a somewhat saturated model of a complete first order theory which is dependent (previously called NIP), by "decomposition theorems for such types". Our thesis is that the picture of dependent theory…

Logic · Mathematics 2013-12-25 Saharon Shelah

In this note we study sets of NIP formulas in some theories of fields and valued fields, with a special focus on the sets of quantifier-free and existential formulas. First, we give a new proof of the fact that Separably Closed Valued…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Paulo Andrés Soto Moreno

We show that any pseudofinite group with NIP theory and with a finite upper bound on the length of chains of centralisers is soluble-by-finite. In particular, any NIP rosy pseudofinite group is soluble-by-finite. This generalises, and…

Logic · Mathematics 2012-02-16 Dugald Macpherson , Katrin Tent

We consider hereditary classes of graphs equipped with a total order. We provide multiple equivalent characterisations of those classes which have bounded twin-width. In particular, we prove a grid theorem for classes of ordered graphs…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Pierre Simon , Szymon Toruńczyk

We show that every unstable NIP theory admits a V-definable linear quasi-order, over a finite set of parameters. In particular, if the theory is omega-categorical, then it interprets an infinite linear order. This partially answers a…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-07-02 Pierre Simon

This paper has two parts. In the first one, we prove that an invariant dp-minimal type is either finitely satisfiable or definable. We also prove that a definable version of the (p,q)-theorem holds in dp-minimal theories of small or medium…

Logic · Mathematics 2015-09-24 Pierre Simon

This paper provides a full characterization for when the expansion of a complete o-minimal theory by a unary predicate that picks out a divisible dense and codense subgroup has a model companion. This result is motivated by criteria and…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-10-07 Alexi Block Gorman