Il s'agit d'un colloque sur les groupes de rang de Morley fini, pour célébrer le retour de Tuna Altinel en France. Elle aura lieu en salle Fokko du Cloux (Institut Camille Jordan, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1). Certains exposés auront lieu à l'université, d'autres en visio. Tous les exposés seront visibles en visio sur Zoom. Lien.
Dates: 23 - 24 September 2021 (Thursday/Friday).
Format pdf et jpg
Programme (Pdf file of the programme and abstracts)
Thursday, September 23
10am, Opening: Simon Masnou (head of the Institut Camille
Jordan), and Michel
Broué. Video
Masnou, Video Broué
10h45 : Bruno Poizat (Lyon 1), La Conjecture d'Algebricité, dans une
perspective historique / The Algebraicity Conjecture, in a
historical
perspective. Video,
Video
last slide, and Slides
12h : Ayse Berkman (Mimar Sinan, Turkey), Generically Multiply Transitive Actions on Solvable Groups in the Finite
Morley Rank
Context. Video
and Slides
13h : Lunch break
14h30 : Olivier Frécon (Poitiers), Groupes harmonieux (partie 1 : une analyse de Lascar des groupes de
rang de Morley fini
revisitée). Video and Slides
15h45 : Rachad Bentbib (Poitiers) Harmonious Groups (part 2: Their structure inside groups of finite
Morley
rank). Video and Slides
17h15 : Rahim Moosa (Waterloo, Canada), From Borovik-Cherlin to bounding
nonminimality. Video and Slides
Friday, September 24
9h: Katrin Tent (Münster, Germany), Mock hyperbolic reflection spaces and Frobenius groups of finite Morley
rank. Video and Slides
10h15 : Samuel Zamour (Lyon
1), Dimensional Quasi-Frobenius
Groups. Video and Slides
12h : Gregory Cherlin (Rutgers, USA), Finite primitive binary permutation groups. Video and Slides
13h : Lunch break
14h30 : Alexandre Borovik (Manchester, UK), Actions of finite
groups and simple algebraic groups on abelian groups of finite
Morley
rank. Video and Slides
15h45 : Ulla Karhumäki (Helsinki, Finland), Small groups
of finite Morley rank with a tight
automorphism. Video and Slides
17h15 : Joshua Wiscons (California State U. Sacramento, USA), Minimal
representations of Sym(n) and
Alt(n).Video and Slides
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ABSTRACTS
Rachad Bentbib (Poitiers) Harmonious Groups (part 2: Their structure inside groups of finite
Morley rank)
This work is joint with Olivier Frécon.
Our main motivation is the caracterisation of ℵ_1-categorical groups
among the pure groups.
We investigate how the harmonious interpretable subgroups with respect
to non-analogous strongly minimal sets interact with each other inside a
group G of finite Morley rank.
We show that, if G is connected, the group G/Z(G) is a finite direct
product of harmonious interpretable groups
and the derived subgroup of G is a central product of harmonious
interpretable groups, noting that a harmonious group in a language of
cardinality κ is λ-categorical for every λ >
κ.
Furthermore, we hypothesize that any group G of finite Morley rank is a
central product of nonnecessarily interpretable harmonious groups, and
we present several results in this direction.
Ayse Berkman (Mimar Sinan, Turkey), Generically Multiply Transitive Actions on Solvable Groups in the Finite
Morley Rank Context
I shall talk about a joint work with Alexandre Borovik on the following
problem posed by Borovik and Cherlin in 2008.
Problem. Let G be a connected group of finite Morley rank
acting faithfully, definably, and
generically m-transitively on a connected abelian group V of finite
Morley
rank, where m ≥ rk(V). Show that m=rk(V) and the action
G ↷ V is equivalent to the natural action
GL_m(F) ↷ F^m for some algebraically
closed field F.
Alexandre Borovik (Manchester, UK), Actions of finite groups and simple algebraic groups on abelian groups of finite Morley rank
I will explain some ideas of a proof of the following result.
Theorem. Let G = G_1 × ...× G_m where each G_i = G_i(K_i) is the group of points over some algebraically closed field K_i of characteristic p >0 of a simple algebraic group defined over K_i.
Assume that G acts faithfully, definably and irreducibly on a connected
elementary abelian p-group V of finite Morley rank.
Then all K_i are definably isomorphic to the same field K and V has a structure of a finite dimensional K-vector space compatible with the action of G, and G is a Zariski closed subgroup of GL_K(V).
Gregory Cherlin (Rutgers, USA), Finite primitive binary permutation groups
Recently Gill, Liebeck, and Spiga have completed the classification of
finite primitive binary permutation groups, confirming a long-standing
conjecture. I'll discuss this work, and some related problems.
We might want to consider, as well, what transpires in the category of
ranked groups.
Olivier Frécon (Poitiers), Groupes harmonieux (partie 1 : une analyse de Lascar des groupes de
rang de Morley fini revisitée)
/This work is joint with Rachad Bentbib./
In a structure of finite Morley rank, we say that two interpretable
strongly minimal sets X and Y are analogous
if there is another strongly minimal set U and two interpretable maps f:
U → X and g: U → Y with cofinite images.
A structure of finite Morley rank is said to be harmonious if all its
interpretable strongly minimal sets are analogous.
In the context of groups, this notion is preserved by elementary
equivalence and
it is expected that a group of finite Morley rank is harmonious if and
only if it is aleph1-categorical.
We will show that any strongly minimal structure is harmonious
and that any group of finite Morley rank has finitely many equivalence
classes of strongly minimal sets.
Ulla Karhumäki (Helsinki, Finland), Small groups of finite Morley rank with a tight automorphism
The famous Cherlin-Zilber conjecture proposes that any infinite simple group of finite Morley rank is isomorphic to a Chevalley group over an algebraically closed field.
In my talk, I will first introduce a recent approach towards this conjecture, which was suggested by P. Ugurlu and is based on the notion of a tight automorphism. I will then discuss a result joint with Ugurlu, stating that any “small” infinite simple group of finite Morley rank with a tight automorphism whose fixed-point subgroup is pseudofinite is isomorphic to the Chevalley group PSL_2 over an algebraically closed field of characteristic different from 2.
Rahim Moosa (Waterloo, Canada), From Borovik-Cherlin to bounding nonminimality
In this talk on joint work with James Freitag, I will explain
how the truth of the Borovik-Cherlin conjecture, applied to binding
group actions in certain totally transcendental theories of interest,
leads to a useful bound on a degree that measures how far a finite-rank
type is from being of rank 1. This is motivated by the search for new
methods to verify the strong minimality of an algebraic differential
equation.
Bruno Poizat (Lyon 1), La Conjecture d'Algebricité, dans une
perspective historique
Je décrirai l'apparition de la Conjecture dans les années 70, en me réferant aux documents originaux, et je poserai quelques questions qui, à ma connaissance, sont ouvertes et qui me semblent plus abordables que la Conjecture elle-même. Cet exposé n'est pas une introduction au sujet : je supposerai que mon auditoire est assez familier des groupes de rang de Morley fini.
The Algebraicity Conjecture, in a historical perspective
I will describe the beginnings of the Conjecture in the '70, with reference to the original documents, and will ask some questions which, to my best knowledge, are open, but seem to me simpler than the Conjecture itself. This talk is not an introduction to the subject : I will assume from the audience a certain familiarity with the groups of finite Morley rank.
Katrin Tent (Münster, Germany), Mock hyperbolic reflection spaces and Frobenius groups of finite Morley
rank
A Frobenius group is a group G together with a proper nontrivial
malnormal subgroup H. A classical result due to Frobenius states that
finite Frobenius groups split, i.e. they can be written as a semidirect
product of a normal subgroup and the subgroup H. It is an open question
if this holds true for groups of finite Morley rank, and the existence
of a non-split Frobenius group of finite Morley rank would contradict
the Algebraicity Conjecture. We use mock hyperbolic reflection spaces, a
generalization of real hyperbolic spaces, to study Frobenius groups of
finite Morley rank. We show that the involutions in a connected
Frobenius group of finite Morley rank and odd type form a mock
hyperbolic reflection space. These spaces satisfy certain rank
inequalities and we conclude that connected Frobenius groups of odd type
and Morley rank at most 6 split. Moreover, by using a construction from
the theory of K-loops we show that if G is a connected Frobenius group
of degenerate type with abelian complement, then G can be expanded to a
group whose involutiuons almost form a mock hyperbolic reflection space.
Josual Wiscons (California State U. Sacramento, USA), Minimal representations of Sym(n) and Alt(n)
We discuss the problem of determining the minimal faithful
representations of Sym(n) and Alt(n) (on not necessarily abelian groups)
in a setting of finite Morley rank, also reviewing connections to
permutation groups possessing a high degree of generic transitivity. Two
specific, rather opposite instances of the problem will be highlighted:
actions on abelian groups and actions on nonsolvable groups without
involutions. In the former case, we work in a new, natural context that
covers at once the classical, finitary case as well as modules definable
in an o-minimal or finite Morley rank setting. This represents joint
work with Tuna Altınel, Barry Chin, Luis Jaime Corredor, Adrien Deloro,
and Andy Yu.
Samuel Zamour (Lyon
1), Dimensional Quasi-Frobenius Groups
Following the work of A. Deloro and J. Wiscons, we study quasi-Frobenius
groups (QF), namely pairs of connected groups C < G such that N_G(C)/C is
finite and C intersects any distinct conjugate trivially. Principal
examples are connected Frobenius groups, but also the classical groups
GA_1(C), PGL_2(C) (ranked universe) and SO_3(R) (o-minimal universe). We
consider essentially ranked (QF) with involutions but we will say some
words about the o-mimimal case. Focusing on translations, i.e., products
of involutions, we study the structure of Borel subgroups and we derive
some classification results, notably an identification theorem for
PGL_2(K), with K an algebraically closed field of characteristic
different from two.
Scientific Comittee: Zoé Chatzidakis, Adrien Deloro, Frank Wagner.
Organization Committee: Thomas Blossier, Frank Wagner
Sponsors: ANR GeoMod AAPG2019, ANR Agrume ANR-17-CE40-0026, IDEX Lyon, Institut Camille Jordan.