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Revisiting virtual difference ideals

Logic 2024-07-24 v2

Abstract

The main idea of [4] was that structures built from periodic prime ideals have better properties from the usual ones built from invariant ideals; but unable to work with periodic ideals alone, we had to generalise further to a somewhat ephemeral setting called virtual ideals. This text has two purposes. It corrects an error in [4] discovered by Tom Scanlon's UCB seminar, recovering all results for all virtual ideals. In addition, based on results in [3], we describe a wide family of difference equations where virtual ideals reduce to periodic ideals.

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@article{arxiv.1608.08438,
  title  = {Revisiting virtual difference ideals},
  author = {Zoé Chatzidakis and Ehud Hrushovski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.08438},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

Contains an erratum to Z. Chatzidakis, E. Hrushovski, Y. Peterzil, Model theory of difference fields, II: Periodic ideals and the trichotomy in all characteristics, Proceedings of the London Math. Society(3) 85 (2002), 257 - 311

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