Pillay–Yao conjecture on almost periodicity of global f-generic types

Let GG be a group definable in a NIP structure. Say that GG is dfg if it has a definable global f-generic type, and call a global f-generic type almost periodic when its orbit under GG lies in a minimal closed invariant subset of the relevant type space. Pillay–Yao conjecture. If GG is a dfg group definable in a NIP structure, then every global f-generic type of GG is almost periodic.

The conjecture concerns the relationship between definability and dynamical behavior of generic types in NIP structures. The paper proves it in the pp-adic setting using its structure theorem for dfg groups and a result on trigonalizable groups, while the stated general NIP version is not resolved here.

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Anand Pillay and Ningyuan Yao, “On groups with definable f-generics definable in p-adically closed fields”, arXiv:1911.01833 (2023).

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