Related papers: Positive characteristic Ax-Schanuel
We prove a positive characteristic version of Ax's theorem on the intersection of an algebraic subvariety and an analytic subgroup of an algebraic group. Our result is stated in a more general context of a formal map between an algebraic…
In this article, which is dedicated to my friend and colleague Boris Zilber on the occasion of his 75th birthday, I put forward a strategy for proving his quasiminimality conjecture for the complex exponential field. That is, for showing…
For Boris Zilber on his 75th birthday. I trace the roots of my collaboration with Boris Zilber, which combines categoricity theory, finite model theory, algorithmics, and combinatorics.
We give properties of the real-split retraction of the mixed weak Mumford-Tate domain and prove the Ax-Schanuel property of period mappings arising from variations of mixed Hodge structures. An ingredient in the proof is the definability of…
In this paper we use tools from set theory and the uncountable categoricity of Zilber's pseudo-exponential field to show that Zilber's field is isomorphic to the complex field with (standard) exponentiation and hence Schanuel's conjecture…
In [1], J. Ax proved a transcendency theorem for certain differential fields of characteristic zero: the differential counterpart of the still open Schanuel's conjecture about the exponential function over the field of complex numbers [11,…
This paper contains an alternate proof of the Schanuel Nullstellensatz for Zilber's Pseudoexponentiation. Furthermore, in an algebraically closed exponential field whose exponential map is surjective with standard kernel, this property…
We prove a version of the Manin-Mumford conjecture for semiabelian varieties over fields of positive characteristic. The proof presented here contains the details of the proof sketched by the author in the article "Diophantine geometry from…
I give a model-theoretic setting for the modular $j$ function and its derivatives. These structures, here called $j$-fields, provide an adequate setting for interpreting the Ax-Schanuel theorem for $j$ (Pila-Tsimerman 2015). Following the…
We introduce and discuss a variant of Schanuel conjecture in the framework of the Carlitz exponential function over Tate algebras and allied functions. Another purpose of the present paper is to widen the horizons of possible investigations…
In this survey paper, we present the broad outlines of the proof of a character formula for tilting representations of reductive algebraic groups in positive characteristic, obtained partly in collaboration with several other authors. A…
In this paper we prove a functional transcendence statement for the j-function which is an analogue of the Ax-Schanuel theorem for the exponential function. It asserts, roughly, that atypical algebraic relations among functions and their…
Assuming Schanuel's Conjecture we prove that for any variety V over the algebraic closure over the rational numbers, of dimension n and with dominant projections, there exists a generic point in V. We obtain in this way many instances of…
In this paper we apply Ax-Schanuel's Theorem to the ultraproduct of $p$-adic fields in order to get some results towards algebraic independence of $p$-adic exponentials for almost all primes $p$.
The algebra of exponential fields and their extensions is developed. The focus is on ELA-fields, which are algebraically closed with a surjective exponential map. In this context, finitely presented extensions are defined, it is shown that…
This is a survey paper on algebraic surfaces in positive characteristic based on a series of lectures that the author gave at the University of Edinburgh in March 2023. It is focused on certain positive characteristic phenomena like…
In this paper we survey the history of, and recent developments on, two major conjectures originating in Zilber's model-theoretic work on complex exponentiation -- Existential Closedness and Zilber-Pink. The main focus is on the modular…
The paper studies differentially positive systems, that is, systems whose linearization along an arbitrary trajectory is positive. We illustrate the use of differential positivity on compact forward invariant sets for the characterization…
In the 80th anniversary book for Alex M\"uller I wrote a story of our scientific collaboration, Shared Fascinations. This time I will be more personal, about the human side of our collaboration and encounters, while also referring to…
This survey is an introduction to positive definite kernels and the set of methods they have inspired in the machine learning literature, namely kernel methods. We first discuss some properties of positive definite kernels as well as…