Finiteness conjecture for chains of definable subgroups of abelian interpretable groups

Let XX be an abelian interpretable group. By Corollary~, there is an increasing chain of \textit{dfg} subgroups (Yi:i<α)(Y_i:i<\alpha) with Y0=0Y_0=0, whose successive quotients have dp-rank 11; when the chain terminates, the final quotient is definably compact and has \textit{fsg}. Finiteness conjecture. The ordinal b1b1 is finite. Therefore, any abelian interpretable group XX sits in a short exact sequence

1Yα1XX/Yα11,1\to Y_{\alpha-1}\to X\to X/Y_{\alpha-1}\to 1,

where Yα1Y_{\alpha-1} has \textit{dfg} and X/Yα1X/Y_{\alpha-1} has \textit{fsg} and is definably compact. The conjecture is automatic for definable groups because the dimensions of the successive subgroups strictly increase, but it remains unclear for general interpretable groups.

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Will Johnson and Ningyuan Yao, “Abelian groups definable in p-adically closed fields”, arXiv:2206.14364 (2022).

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