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Ellis enveloping semigroups in real closed fields

Logic 2024-01-17 v2 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

We introduce the Boolean algebra of d-semialgebraic (more generally, d-definable) sets and prove that its Stone space is naturally isomorphic to the Ellis enveloping semigroup of the Stone space of the Boolean algebra of semialgebraic (definable) sets. For definably connected o-minimal groups, we prove that this family agrees with the one of externally definable sets in the one-dimensional case. Nonetheless, we prove that in general these two families differ, even in the semialgebraic case over the real algebraic numbers. On the other hand, in the semialgebraic case we characterise real semialgrebraic functions representing Boolean combinations of d-semialgebraic sets.

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@article{arxiv.2307.07294,
  title  = {Ellis enveloping semigroups in real closed fields},
  author = {Elías Baro and Daniel Palacín},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.07294},
  year   = {2024}
}

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22 pages

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