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Geometry of forking in simple theories

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Assaf Peretz*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, Ca 94720, USA. E-mail: assafp@math.berkeley.edu

Abstract

We investigate the geometry of forking for SU-rank 2 elements in supersimple ω-categorical theories and prove stable forking and some structural properties for such elements. We extend this analysis to the case of SU-rank 3 elements.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2006

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