Bounding nonminimality and a conjecture of Borovik–Cherlin

  • James Freitag

    University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
  • Rahim Moosa

    University of Waterloo, Canada
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Abstract

Motivated by the search for methods to establish strong minimality of certain low order algebraic differential equations, a measure of how far a finite rank stationary type is from being minimal is introduced and studied: The degree of nonminimality is the minimum number of realisations of the type required to witness a nonalgebraic forking extension. Conditional on the truth of a conjecture of Borovik and Cherlin on the generic multiple-transitivity of homogeneous spaces definable in the stable theory being considered, it is shown that the nonminimality degree is bounded by the -rank plus 2. The Borovik–Cherlin conjecture itself is verified for algebraic and meromorphic group actions, and a bound of -rank plus 1 is then deduced unconditionally for differentially closed fields and compact complex manifolds. An application is given regarding transcendence of solutions to algebraic differential equations.

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James Freitag, Rahim Moosa, Bounding nonminimality and a conjecture of Borovik–Cherlin. J. Eur. Math. Soc. (2023), published online first

DOI 10.4171/JEMS/1384