陶哲轩博客写数学问题时，通常先把对象定义清楚，再给直觉、反例和证明轮廓。把「Reading seminar 5: “Stable group theory and approximate subgroups”, by Ehud Hrushovski」改写成可阅读的中文笔记，重点是：问题在问什么、已知到哪一步、下一步最容易走偏在哪。原站广告、分享条和导航已去掉。

问题在问什么

After a one-week hiatus, we are resuming our reading seminar of the Hrushovski paper . This week, we are taking a break from the paper proper, and are instead focusing on the subject of stable theories (or more precisely, -stable theories ), which form an important component of the general model-theoretic machinery that the Hrushovski paper uses. (Actually, Hrushovski’s paper needs to work with more general theories than the stable ones, but apparently many of the tools used

Roughly speaking, stable theories are those in which there are “few” definable sets; a classic example is the theory of algebraically closed fields (of characteristic zero, say), in which the only definable sets are boolean combinations of algebraic varieties. Because of this paucity of definable sets, it becomes possible to define the notion of the Morley rank of a definable set (analogous to the dimension of an algebraic set), together with the more refined notion of Morley

已知结果和反例

The material here was presented by Anush Tserunyan ; her notes on the subject can be found here . Let me also repeat the previous list of resources on this paper (updated slightly):

Let be a countable language. Recall that if we have a structure for , and a set of constants in , we can define an ( -ary) type of over to be a maximal consistent family of formulae for an -tuple , where the formulae are allowed to use as constants. For instance, in the language of algebraically closed fields over some base field (all elements of which are constants in ), if is an algebraic closed field and is empty, the type associated to a “generic” element of an algebraic

证明或构造的主线

The set of all -ary types of over is denoted . It has a natural topology, the Stone topology , whose basic open (in fact, clopen) sets are given by for any formula defined over . This makes the space of types a Stone space (totally disconnected, Hausdorff, compact).

In general, the number of types in the world can be quite large: if has cardinality for some infinite , then the total number of formulae in is also , so the number of types could conceivably be as large as . But for a special class of theories – the -stable theories – the number is much smaller:

阅读时建议盯住的点

Definition 1 Let be an infinite cardinal. A complete theory is -stable if, for any structure satisfying , and any set of constants in of cardinality at most , the set of -ary types of over is at most for every .

The classic example of a -stable theory (for any infinite ) is the theory of algebraically closed fields with fixed characteristic (it is a classical theorem that this theory is complete, basically thanks to quantifier elimination). By quantifier elimination (or by many applications of the nullstellensatz), one can show that the -ary types in this theory over are in one-to-one correspondence with minimal ideals in , where , where is the base field of given characteristic, wit

值得单独记下的条目

• Henry Towsner’s notes (which most of Notes 2-4 have been based on; updated to remove references to homogeneity, using only countable saturation);
• Alex Usvyatsov’s notes on the derivation of Corollary 1.2 (broadly parallel to the notes here);
• Lou van den Dries’ notes (covering most of what we have done so far, and also material on stable theories); and
• Anand Pillay’s sketch of a simplified proof of Theorem 1.1.
• (i) No binary tree of formulae exists for any model of .
• (ii) is -stable for every infinite ;
• The empty set has Morley rank ; all other definable sets have Morley rank at least .
• If is an ordinal, then a definable set has Morley rank at least if and only if it contains infinitely many disjoint definable sets of Morley rank at least .

阅读和落地时建议先做的 5 件事

1. 用自己的语言重写定义和结论，不看原文能不能说清对象是什么。
2. 找一个最小反例或边界情形，确认假设少一条会怎样。
3. 把证明拆成可独立检验的引理，每步只保留一个新想法。
4. 若涉及计算或形式化，先写可复现的小例子，再谈一般情形。
5. 记下尚未解决的缺口：缺估计、缺构造，还是缺正确的范畴。

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