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Pseudofinite fields with additive and multiplicative character

Logic 2025-11-26 v1

Abstract

We introduce the theory PF+,×\mathrm{PF}^{+,\times} 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 00) 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 PF+,×\mathrm{PF}^{+,\times} 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

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