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GROUPS OF MORLEY RANK 4

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2016

JOSHUA WISCONS*
Affiliation:
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICSHAMILTON COLLEGECLINTON, NY 13323, USAE-mail: [email protected]

Abstract

We show that any simple group of Morley rank 4 must be a bad group with no proper definable subgroups of rank larger than 1. We also give an application to groups acting on sets of Morley rank 2.

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Copyright © The Association for Symbolic Logic 2016 

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