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Differential Meadows

Rings and Algebras 2009-02-07 v1 Logic in Computer Science Commutative Algebra

Abstract

A meadow is a zero totalised field (0^{-1}=0), and a cancellation meadow is a meadow without proper zero divisors. In this paper we consider differential meadows, i.e., meadows equipped with differentiation operators. We give an equational axiomatization of these operators and thus obtain a finite basis for differential cancellation meadows. Using the Zariski topology we prove the existence of a differential cancellation meadow.

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@article{arxiv.0804.3336,
  title  = {Differential Meadows},
  author = {Jan A. Bergstra and Alban Ponse},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0804.3336},
  year   = {2009}
}

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8 pages, 2 tables

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