TY - BOOK AU - Casanovas,Enrique TI - Simple theories and hyperimaginaries T2 - Lecture notes in logic SN - 9781139003728 (ebook) AV - QA9.7 .C37 2011 U1 - 511.3/4 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Model theory KW - First-order logic KW - Hyperspace N1 - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015); Preliminaries -- x, y-Types, stability and simplicity -- x, y-Types and the local rank D -- Forking -- Independence -- The local rank CB x, y (pi) -- Heirs and coheirs -- Stable forking -- Lascar strong types -- The independence theorem -- Canonical bases -- Abstract independence relations -- Supersimple theories -- More ranks -- Hyperimaginaries -- Hyperimaginary forking -- Canonical bases revisited -- Elimination of hyperimaginaries -- Orthogonality and analysability -- Hyperimaginaries in supersimple theories N2 - This book is an up-to-date introduction to simple theories and hyperimaginaries, with special attention to Lascar strong types and elimination of hyperimaginary problems. Assuming only knowledge of general model theory, the foundations of forking, stability and simplicity are presented in full detail. The treatment of the topics is as general as possible, working with stable formulas and types and assuming stability or simplicity of the theory only when necessary. The author offers an introduction to independence relations as well as a full account of canonical bases of types in stable and simple theories. In the last chapters the notions of internality and analyzability are discussed and used to provide a self-contained proof of elimination of hyperimaginaries in supersimple theories UR - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139003728 ER -