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.
References
Primary source
Dugald Macpherson and Katrin Tent, “Profinite groups with NIP theory and p-adic analytic groups”, arXiv:1603.02179 (2016).
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