Definability and decidability for rings of integers in totally imaginary fields
Abstract
We show that the ring of integers of is existentially definable in the ring of integers of , where denotes the field of all totally real numbers. This implies that the ring of integers of is undecidable and first-order non-definable in . More generally, when is a totally imaginary quadratic extension of a totally real field , we use the unit groups of orders to produce existentially definable totally real subsets . Under certain conditions on , including the so-called JR-number of being the minimal value , we deduce the undecidability of . This extends previous work which proved an analogous result in the opposite case . In particular, unlike prior work, we do not require that contains only finitely many roots of unity.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.2207.00140,
title = {Definability and decidability for rings of integers in totally imaginary fields},
author = {Caleb Springer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.00140},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
11 pages. Small correction to Lemma 3.2 and the proof of Theorem 3.3. Added Remark 3.4