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Additivity of the dp-rank
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The main result of this article is sub-additivity of the dp-rank. We also show that the study of theories of finite dp-rank cannot be reduced to the study of its dp-minimal types, and we discuss the possible relations between dp-rank and VC-density.
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  • Itay Kaplan
  • Affiliation: Mathematischen Instituts, Universität Münster, Einsteinstraße 62, 48149 Münster, Germany
  • MR Author ID: 886730
  • Alf Onshuus
  • Affiliation: Departamento de Matemáticas, Universidad de los Andes, Cra 1 No. 18A-10, Edificio H, Bogotá, 111711, Colombia
  • MR Author ID: 780610
  • ORCID: setImmediate$0.6870641344914623$6
  • Alexander Usvyatsov
  • Affiliation: Centro de Matemática e Aplicações Fundamentais, Universidade de Lisboa, Av. Prof. Gama Pinto, 2, 1649-003 Lisboa, Portugal
  • Received by editor(s): September 7, 2011
  • Received by editor(s) in revised form: December 21, 2011
  • Published electronically: July 1, 2013
  • Additional Notes: The third author was supported by FCT grant SFRH/BPD/34893/2007 and FCT research project PTDC/MAT/101740/2008.
    We thank the organizers of the meeting “Model theory: Around Valued Fields and Dependent Theories” at Oberwolfach in January 2010. Special thanks to Sergei Starchenko for valuable discussions during and after the meeting. We would also like to thank John Goodrick, Alfred Dolich, Pierre Simon and the anonymous referee for some very helpful remarks and comments on earlier drafts of this paper.
  • © Copyright 2013 American Mathematical Society
    The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication.
  • Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 365 (2013), 5783-5804
  • MSC (2010): Primary 03C45, 03C98; Secondary 05D99, 68R05
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-2013-05782-0
  • MathSciNet review: 3091265