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This survey is in the same area as those by Cherlin and Lachlan in this volume. The purpose is to show how results on finite permutation groups contribute to the structure theory for stable finitely homogeneous structures and for smoothly approximated structures. The model theory of smooth approximation has been developed very much further by Cherlin and Hrushovski [6]. See [5] for an account of this.
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Macpherson, D. (1997). Homogeneous and Smoothly Approximated Structures. In: Hart, B.T., Lachlan, A.H., Valeriote, M.A. (eds) Algebraic Model Theory. NATO ASI Series, vol 496. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8923-9_7
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