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Interpreting groups in ω-categorical structures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Dugald Macpherson
Dugald Macpherson*
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School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary and Westfield College, London EI 4NS, England
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Abstract

It is shown lhat no infinite group is interpretable in any structure which is homogeneous in a finite relational language. Related questions are discussed for other ω-categorical structures.

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The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 56 , Issue 4 , December 1991, pp. 1317 - 1324
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1991

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