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Pseudoprojective strongly minimal sets are locally projective
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 March 2014
Abstract
Let D be a strongly minimal set in the language L, and D′ ⊃ D an elementary extension with infinite dimension over D. Add to L a unary predicate symbol D and let T′ be the theory of the structure (D′, D), where D interprets the predicate D. It is known that T′ is ω-stable. We prove
Theorem A. If D is not locally modular, then T′ has Morley rank ω.
We say that a strongly minimal set D is pseudoprojective if it is nontrivial and there is a k < ω such that, for all a, b ∈ D and closed X ⊂ D, a ∈ cl(Xb) ⇒ there is a Y ⊂ X with a ∈ cl(Yb) and ∣Y∣ ≤ k. Using Theorem A, we prove
Theorem B. If a strongly minimal set D is pseudoprojective, then D is locally projective.
The following result of Hrushovski's (proved in §4) plays a part in the proof of Theorem B.
Theorem C. Suppose that D is strongly minimal, and there is some proper elementary extension D1 of D such that the theory of the pair (D1, D) is ω1-categorical. Then D is locally modular.
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