On Descent and germs

Abstract

We present a new proof of descent for stably dominated types in any theory, dropping the hypothesis of the existence of global invariant extensions. Additionally, we give a much simpler proof of descent for stably dominated types in $\ACVF$. Furthermore, we demonstrate that any stable set in an $\NIP$ theory has the bounded stabilizing property. This result is subsequently used to correct Proposition 6.7 from the book on stable domination and independence in $\ACVF$.