Pierre Simon

A Guide to NIP Theories

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first book to introduce the rapidly developing subject of NIP theories, for students and researchers in model theory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 166
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 403g
• ISBN-13: 9781107057753
• ISBN-10: 1107057752
• Artikelnr.: 42793902

Autorenporträt

Pierre Simon is Chargé de recherche, CNRS, at Université Lyon 1, France. He completed his PhD at Université Paris-Sud, Orsay under the supervision of Elisabeth Bourscaren. His thesis, 'Ordre et stabilité dans les théories NIP', received the 2012 Sacks Prize for the best thesis in logic that year as well as the Perrissin-Pirasset/Schneider prize from the Chancellerie des Universités de Paris.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. The NIP property and invariant types
3. Honest definitions and applications
4. Strong dependence and dp-ranks
5. Forking
6. Finite combinatorics
7. Measures
8. Definably amenable groups
9. Distality
Appendix A. Examples of NIP structures
Appendix B. Probability theory
References
Index.