Related papers: Towards a Model Theory for Transseries
We develop here the algebra of the differential field of transseries and of related valued differential fields. This book contains in particular our recently obtained decisive positive results on the model theory of these structures.
From the simplest point of view, transseries are a new kind of expansion for real-valued functions. But transseries constitute much more than that--they have a very rich (algebraic, combinatorial, analytic) structure. The set of transseries…
We study the relationship between fields of transseries and residue fields of convex subrings of non-standard extensions of the real numbers. This was motivated by a question of Todorov and Vernaeve, answered in this paper.
Let $\mathbb{T}$ be the differential field of logarithmic-exponential transseries. We show that the expansion of $\mathbb{T}$ by its natural exponential function is model complete and locally o-minimal. We give an axiomatization of the…
We study the existence of formal Taylor expansions for functions defined on fields of generalised series. We prove a general result for the existence and convergence of those expansions for fields equipped with a derivation and an…
In this paper we completely characterize all dimension functions on all models of the theory $T_{\log}$ of the asymptotic couple of the field of logarithmic transseries (Dimension Theorem). This is done by characterizing the "small"…
Germs of real-valued functions, surreal numbers, and transseries are three ways to enrich the real continuum by infinitesimal and infinite quantities. Each of these comes with naturally interacting notions of ordering and derivative. The…
This paper concerns pairs of models of the theory of the differential field of logarithmic-exponential transseries that are tame as a pair of real closed fields. That is, the smaller model is bounded inside the larger model and there exists…
Let $\mathbb T$ be the differential field of transseries. We establish some basic properties of the dimension of a definable subset of ${\mathbb T}^n$, also in relation to its codimension in the ambient space ${\mathbb T}^n$. The case of…
We investigate distality and existence of distal expansions in valued fields and related structures. In particular, we characterize distality in a large class of ordered abelian groups, provide an AKE-style characterization for henselian…
The present article surveys surreal numbers with an informal approach, from their very first definition to their structure of universal real closed analytic and exponential field. Then we proceed to give an overview of the recent…
We show that \'Ecalle's transseries and their variants (LE and EL-series) can be interpreted as functions from positive infinite surreal numbers to surreal numbers. The same holds for a much larger class of formal series, here called…
The computation of observables in general interacting theories, be them quantum mechanical, field, gauge or string theories, is a non-trivial problem which in many cases can only be addressed by resorting to perturbative methods. In most…
We show that the composition of omega-series by surreal numbers, or more generally by elements of any confluent field of transseries, is monotonic in its second argument. In particular, omega-series and LE-series interpreted as functions…
We provide a characterisation of differentially large fields in arbitrary characteristic and a single derivation in the spirit of Blum axioms for differentially closed fields. In the case of characteristic zero, we use these axioms to…
We study various universal-existential fragments of first-order theories of fields, in particular of function fields and of equicharacteristic henselian valued fields. For example we discuss to what extent the theory of a field k determines…
I analyze $\mathcal{O}$-weakly immediate and $\mathcal{O}$-residual types in an o-minimal expansion of an ordered field $\mathbb{E}$, where $\mathcal{O}$ is a convex valuation ring. The main result is a characterization of those exponential…
Our aim in this paper is to look at some transfer results in model theory (mainly in the context of o-minimal structures) from the category theory viewpoint.
Every discrete definable subset of a closed asymptotic couple with ordered scalar field $\boldsymbol k$ is shown to be contained in a finite-dimensional $\boldsymbol k$-linear subspace of that couple. It follows that the differential-valued…
We survey some important properties of fields of generalized series and of exponential-logarithmic series, with particular emphasis on their possible differential structure, based on a joint work of the author with S. Kuhlmann [KM12b,KM11].