Meromorphic Groups

Abstract

We introduce the notion of a meromorphic group, weakening somewhat Fujiki's definition We prove that a meromorphic group is meromorphically an extension of a complex torus by a linear algebraic group, generalizing results in [Fujiki, 1978]. A special case of this result, as well as one of the ingredients in the proof, is that a strongly minimal "modular" meromorphic group is a complex torus, answering a question of Hrushovski. As a consequence, we show that a simple compact complex manifold has algebraic and Kummer dimension zero if an only if its generic type is trivial.

The claim in Case III of the proof of Lemma 4.3 was missing in the earlier version