Tits Buildings and the Model Theory of Groups (Paperback)

Preface; 1. Basics on buildings Theo Grundhofer; 2. An introduction to generalized polygons Hendrik Van Maldeghem; 3. Buildings and classical groups Linus Kramer; 4. Twin buildings Bernhard Muhlherr; 5. Twin trees and twin buildings Mark Ronan; 6. Simple groups of finite Morley rank of even type Tuna Altinel; 7. BN-pairs and groups of finite Morley rank Katrin Tent; 8. CM-trivial stable groups Andreas Baudisch; 9. Amalgames de Hrushovski Bruno Poizat; 10. Rank and homogeneous structures John T. Baldwin; 11. Constructions of semilinear towers of Steiner systems Keith Johnson; 12. Introduction to the Lascar group Martin Ziegler.