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Some quadratically closed fields of nimbers

Logic 2026-06-25 v1 Number Theory

Abstract

In 1976, J. H. Conway introduced Nim arithmetic which establishes an algebraically closed field structure over the class of ordinals and proved that the first transcendental ordinal is ωωω\omega^{\omega^\omega}. The problem of finding the next transcendental ordinal is still open. Two years later, H. Lenstra proved that ε0\varepsilon_0 is the next quadratically closed field ordinal. In this paper, we prove that {εααωωω}\{\varepsilon_\alpha \mid \alpha \leq \omega^{\omega^\omega} \} are the next quadratically closed field ordinals.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2606.28414,
  title  = {Some quadratically closed fields of nimbers},
  author = {Lucia Risnoveanu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.28414},
  year   = {2026}
}
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