Finite-vocabulary obstruction to elimination of imaginaries in Hrushovski constructions
Finite-vocabulary obstruction to elimination of imaginaries in Hrushovski constructions
Let be a finite relational vocabulary, and let be the class of all finite -structures satisfying the hereditarily positive dimension from Axiom 2. Let be Hrushovski's predimension, let be a good pair, and let denote the symmetric definable closure modulo definable closure of proper subsets. Assume that there is a natural number such that
for every good pair with .
Finite-vocabulary conjecture. Under these assumptions,
for every independent set with . Consequently, no Hrushovski construction in a finite relational vocabulary —that is, with containing all finite -structures—has elimination of imaginaries.
This is the source's exact formulation of the proposed sufficient condition. It would explain why the infinite-vocabulary construction can have elimination of imaginaries while finite relational vocabularies cannot; the source provides no resolution.
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John T. Baldwin and Viktor V. Verbovskiy, “Towards a Finer Classification of Strongly Minimal Sets”, arXiv:2106.15567 (2024).
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