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Decidability of some complicated structures definable in $\mathbb{C}(t)$

Logic 2025-08-26 v1 Algebraic Geometry Number Theory

Abstract

Several properly countable unions of algebraic sets in Cn\mathbb{C}^n are definable in C(t)\mathbb{C}(t) including the set CM of jj-invariants of complex elliptic curves with complex multiplication. It has been suggested that one could prove the undecidability of Th(C(t))\operatorname{Th}(\mathbb{C}(t)) by showing that the theory of the structure CM:=(C,+,,0,1,CM)\mathsf{CM} := (\mathbb{C},+,\cdot,0,1,CM) of the field of complex numbers considered with a unary predicate picking out CM is undecidable. We show using an effective version of the Andr\'e-Oort conjecture that to the contrary Th(CM)\operatorname{Th}(\mathsf{CM}) is stable and decidable. We discuss some related structures on the complex numbers definable in C(t)\mathbb{C}(t) and how their theories may be connected to the Zilber-Pink conjectures.

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@article{arxiv.2508.17485,
  title  = {Decidability of some complicated structures definable in $\mathbb{C}(t)$},
  author = {Thomas Scanlon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.17485},
  year   = {2025}
}
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