The one-based/field-like dichotomy conjecture for full uniformly powerful pro-p groups
The one-based/field-like dichotomy conjecture for full uniformly powerful pro-p groups
Let be a uniformly powerful pro- group that is full as a profinite group. For each , let denote the corresponding term in the lower -series, and regard the finite quotient as an -structure, with each interpreted by . One-based/field-like dichotomy conjecture. The following conditions are equivalent:
- The ring is not interpretable in .
- For every sentence in the language , there is such that either every quotient satisfies for , or every such quotient satisfies .
- The group is nilpotent-by-finite.
This conjecture proposes a model-theoretic one-based/field-like dichotomy for compact -adic analytic groups: failure of interpretation of the -adic integers is predicted to coincide with eventual elementary stabilization of the finite quotients and with nilpotence up to finite index.
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Dugald Macpherson and Katrin Tent, “Profinite groups with NIP theory and p-adic analytic groups”, arXiv:1603.02179 (2016).
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