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Expansions of real closed fields which introduce no new smooth functions

Logic 2018-12-27 v1

Abstract

We prove the following theorem: let R~\widetilde{\mathcal R} be an expansion of the real field R\overline{\mathbb R}, such that every definable set (I) is a uniform countable union of semialgebraic sets, and (II) contains a "semialgebraic chunk". Then every definable smooth function f:XRnRf:X\subseteq \mathbb R^n\to \mathbb R with open semialgebraic domain is semialgebraic. Conditions (I) and (II) hold for various d-minimal expansions R~=R,P\widetilde{\mathcal R} = \langle \overline{\mathbb R}, P\rangle of the real field, such as when P=2ZP=2^\mathbb Z, or PRP\subseteq \mathbb R is an iteration sequence. A generalization of the theorem to d-minimal expansions R~\widetilde{\mathcal R} of Ran\mathbb R_{an} fails. On the other hand, we prove our theorem for expansionsR~\widetilde{\mathcal R} of arbitrary real closed fields. Moreover, its conclusion holds for certain structures with d-minimal open core, such as R,Ralg,2Z\langle \overline{\mathbb R}, \mathbb R_{alg}, 2^\mathbb Z\rangle.

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@article{arxiv.1812.10151,
  title  = {Expansions of real closed fields which introduce no new smooth functions},
  author = {Pantelis E. Eleftheriou and Alex Savatovsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.10151},
  year   = {2018}
}