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On Kueker simple theories

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Ziv Shami*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA, E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract

We show that a Kueker simple theory eliminates ∃ and densely interprets weakly minimal formulas. As part of the proof we generalize Hrushovski's dichotomy for almost complete formulas to simple theories. We conclude that in a unidimensional simple theory an almost-complete formula is either weakly minimal or trivially-almost-complete. We also observe that a small unidimensional simple theory is supersimple of finite SU-rank.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2005

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