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Type-definable and invariant groups in o-minimal structures. (English) Zbl 1118.03028
A famous theorem of Anand Pillay says that, if $$M$$ is an o-minimal structure and $$G$$ is a group definable in $$M$$, then there is a unique manifold definable in $$M$$ with underlying set $$G$$ and the same dimension as $$G$$ such that the manifold topology makes $$G$$ into a topological group. Further investigations of Berarducci and Otero on this matter imply that, if $$M$$ expands a real closed field, then this manifold is even definably isomorphic to a definable subset of $$M^k$$ for some $$k$$.
The paper under review extends these results to groups $$G$$ type-definable in some big o-minimal structure $$M$$. It is shown that such a group $$G$$ is a type-definable subset of a definable manifold inducing on it a group topology. Furthermore, if $$M$$ expands a real closed field, then $$G$$ with this group topology is even definably isomorphic to a type-definable group in some $$M^k$$ with the topology induced by $$M^k$$.
Actually, part of these results holds in a wider setting, i.e., for invariant groups. A subset $$G \subset M^n$$ is said to be invariant if there is some small subset $$A$$ of $$M$$ such that every automorphism of $$M$$ acting identically on $$A$$ fixes $$G$$ setwise. An invariant group is a group $$G$$ such that both $$G$$ as a set and its group operation are invariant. Invariant groups properly extend type-definable groups. In this enlarged framework a dimension theory is developed, and it is proved that each invariant group $$G \subseteq M^n$$ has a unique topology making it a topological group and inducing on some large invariant $$U \subseteq G$$ the same topology as $$M^n$$.

##### MSC:
 03C64 Model theory of ordered structures; o-minimality 20A15 Applications of logic to group theory
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