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On n-dependent groups and fields II

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2021

Artem Chernikov and
Nadja Hempel
Artem Chernikov
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1555, USA; E-mail: chernikov@math.ucla.edu.
Nadja Hempel
Affiliation:
Mathematisches Institut, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Ernst-Zermelo-Str. 1, 79104 Freiburg, Deutschland; E-mail: hempel@math.uni-freiburg.de.

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We continue the study of n-dependent groups, fields and related structures, largely motivated by the conjecture that every n-dependent field is dependent. We provide evidence toward this conjecture by showing that every infinite n-dependent valued field of positive characteristic is henselian, obtaining a variant of Shelah’s Henselianity Conjecture in this case and generalizing a recent result of Johnson for dependent fields. Additionally, we prove a result on intersections of type-definable connected components over generic sets of parameters in n-dependent groups, generalizing Shelah’s absoluteness of $G^{00}$ in dependent theories and relative absoluteness of $G^{00}$ in $2$-dependent theories. In an effort to clarify the scope of this conjecture, we provide new examples of strictly $2$-dependent fields with additional structure, showing that Granger’s examples of non-degenerate bilinear forms over dependent fields are $2$-dependent. Along the way, we obtain some purely model-theoretic results of independent interest: we show that n-dependence is witnessed by formulas with all but one variable singletons; provide a type-counting criterion for $2$-dependence and use it to deduce $2$-dependence for compositions of dependent relations with arbitrary binary functions (the Composition Lemma); and show that an expansion of a geometric theory T by a generic predicate is dependent if and only if it is n-dependent for some n, if and only if the algebraic closure in T is disintegrated. An appendix by Martin Bays provides an explicit isomorphism in the Kaplan-Scanlon-Wagner theorem.

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Forum of Mathematics, Sigma , Volume 9 , 2021, e38
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