Model theory and modules / Mike Prest
1988, First Edition. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. Very good paperback copy; edges slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Item #385362
ISBN: 0521348331
Physical description: xviii, 380 pages; 21cm. Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Preface; Contents; Introduction; Acknowledgements; Notations and conventions; Remarks on the development of the area; Section summaries; Chapter 1 Some preliminaries; 1.1 An introduction to model theory; 1.2 Injective modules and decomposition theorems; Chapter 2 Positive primitive formulas and the sets they define; 2.1 pp formulas; 2.2 pp-types; 2.3 Pure embeddings and pure-injective modules; 2.4 pp-elimination of quantifiers; 2.5 Immediate corollaries of pp-elimination of quantifiers; 2.6 Comparison of complete theories of modules
2.Z pp formulas and types in abelian groups2.L Other languages; Chapter 3 Stability and totally transcendental modules; 3.1 Stability for modules; 3.2 A structure theorem for totally transcendental modules; part I; 3.A Abelian structures; Chapter 4 Hulls; 4.1 pp-essential embeddings and the construction of hulls; 4.2 Examples of hulls; 4.3 Decomposition of injective and pure-injective modules; 4.4 Irreducible types; 4.5 Limited and unlimited types; 4.6 A structure theory for totally transcendental modules; part II; 4.C Categoricity; 4.7 The space of indecomposables
Chapter 5 Forking and ranks5.1 Forking and independence; 5.2 Ranks; 5.3 An algebraic characterisation of independence; 5.4 Independence when T = TXo; Chapter 6 Stability-theoretic properties of types; 6.1 Free parts of types and the stratified order; 6.2 Domination and the RK-order; 6.3 Orthogonality and the RK-order; 6.4 Regular types; 6.1 An example: injective modules over noetherian rings; 6.5 Saturation and pure-injective modules; 6.6 Multiplicity and strong types; Chapter 7 Superstable modules; 7.1 Superstable modules: the uncountable spectrum; 7.2 Modules of U-rank 1 7.3 Modules of finite U-rankChapter 8 The lattice of pp-types and free realisations of pp-types; 8.1 The lattice of pp-types; 8.2 Finitely generated pp-types; 8.3 pp-types and matrices; 8.4 Duality and pure-semisimple rings; Chapter 9 Types and the structure of pure-injective modules; 9.1 Minimal pairs; 9.2 Associated types; 9.3 Notions of isolation; 9.4 Neg-isolated types and elementary cogenerators; Chapter 10 Dimension and decomposition; 10.1 Existence of indecomposable direct summands; 10.2 Dimensions defined on lattices; 10.3 Modules with width 10.4 Classification for theories with dimension10.5 Krull dimension; 10.T Teq; 10.6 Dimension and height; 10.V Valuation rings; Chapter 11 Modules over artinian rings; 11.1 Pure-semisimple rings; 11.2 Pure-semisimple rings and rings of finite representation type; 11.3 Finite hulls over artinian rings; 11.4 Finite Morley rank and finite representation type; 11.P ""Pathologies""; Chapter 12 Functor categories; 12.1 Functors defined from pp formulas; 12.2 Simple functors; 12.3 Embedding into functor categories; 12.P Pure global dimension and dimensions of functor categories Chapter 13 Modules over Artin algebras
Subjects: Model theory.
Modules (Algebra)
Model theory. Modules (Algebra) Model theory.
Modules (Algebra)
Théorie des modèles.
Modules (Algèbre)
Model theory. Modules (Algebra). Modèles, Théorie des. Modules (algèbre)
MATHEMATICS General.
Algebra Modules.
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