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Abhyankar valuations, Pr\"ufer-Manis valuations, and perfectoid Tate algebras

Number Theory 2026-04-27 v3 Commutative Algebra Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

Let KK be a perfectoid field. We describe all quotient fields of the perfectoid Tate algebra\begin{equation*}T_{n,K}^{\text{perfd}}=K\langle X_{1}^{1/p^{\infty}},\dots, X_{n}^{1/p^{\infty}}\rangle\end{equation*}in any number n1n\geq1 of variables in terms of (completed perfections of) the nonarchimedean fields Kr1,,rlK_{r_1,\dots,r_l} occuring in Berkovich geometry. We prove that every quotient field\begin{equation*}L=T_{n,K}^{\text{perfd}}/\mathfrak{m}\end{equation*}is a so-called \textit{semi-immediate} extension of Kr1,,rlperfdK_{r_1,\dots,r_l}^{\text{perfd}} for some\begin{equation*}l\leq\min(n-\text{ht}(\mathfrak{m}^{\flat}\cap (T_{n,K^{\flat}})^{\text{coperf}}),n-1), \end{equation*}which pins down the value groups and the residue fields of the possible quotient fields LL. Moreover, we show that if\begin{equation*}\mathfrak{m}^{\flat}\cap(T_{n,K^{\flat}})^{\text{coperf}}\neq 0,\end{equation*} at least one of the radii rir_{i} has to be irrational, i.e.,\begin{equation*}r_{i}\not\in\sqrt{|K^{\times}|}.\end{equation*} The main ingredient in our proof is the notion of \textit{topologically simple} valuations, which generalize type (IV) points in the classification of points on Spa(KT)\text{Spa}(K\langle T\rangle) to the case of higher-dimensional polydisks. We also consider \textit{rational Abhyankar} valuations and \textit{irrational Abhyankar} valuations, which generalize type (II) and (III) points, respectively. We deduce our main result from a description of topologically simple absolute values and of Abhyankar absolute values on usual Tate algebra. Along the way, we also show that our topologically simple valuations are the same as Pr\"ufer-Manis valuations in the sense of Knebusch-Zhang. Finally, we also show that all allowed possibilities for the quotient fields LL do indeed occur (i.e., the above bound ln1l\leq n-1 is optimal) by generalizing an example of Gleason.

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@article{arxiv.2510.22678,
  title  = {Abhyankar valuations, Pr\"ufer-Manis valuations, and perfectoid Tate algebras},
  author = {Dimitri Dine and Jack J Garzella},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.22678},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

50 pages, 3 figures, comments welcome. Corrected the statement and proof of 3.6, 3.7, and 3.10 in the previous version