Pseudofinite fields with additive and multiplicative character
Logic
2025-11-26 v1
Abstract
We introduce the theory of pseudofinite fields with generic additive and multiplicative character added as continuous logic predicates. Using the Weil bounds on character sums over finite fields as well as the Erd\H{o}s-Tur\`an-Koksma inequality we show that it is the asymptotic theory (in characteristic ) of finite fields with (sufficiently generic) additive and multiplicative character. Moreover, we establish quantifier elimination in a natural definitional expansion of the language and deduce that integration by the Chatzidakis-van den Dries-Macintyre counting measure is uniformly definable in the parameters. Finally, we show that is a simple theory.
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@article{arxiv.2511.20243,
title = {Pseudofinite fields with additive and multiplicative character},
author = {Stefan Marian Ludwig},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.20243},
year = {2025}
}
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30 pages