Cell Decomposition for semibounded p-adic sets
Abstract
We study a reduct L\ast of the ring language where multiplication is restricted to a neighbourhood of zero. The language is chosen such that for p-adically closed fields K, the L\ast-definable subsets of K coincide with the semi-algebraic subsets of K. Hence structures (K,L\ast) can be seen as the p-adic counterpart of the o-minimal structure of semibounded sets. We show that in this language, p-adically closed fields admit cell decomposition, using cells similar to p-adic semi-algebraic cells. From this we can derive quantifier-elimination, and give a characterization of definable functions. In particular, we conclude that multi- plication can only be defined on bounded sets, and we consider the existence of definable Skolem functions.
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@article{arxiv.1205.4178,
title = {Cell Decomposition for semibounded p-adic sets},
author = {Eva Leenknegt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.4178},
year = {2012}
}
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20 pages