A note on existentially t-henselian fields
Abstract
A field is existentially t-henselian if it is has the same existential theory in the first-order language of rings as a field that admits a nontrivial henselian valuation. This property turns out to be equivalent to -largeness, which is a property identified in previous work with Fehm, and which holds for if and only if is not Diophantine in , without extra constants. In this short note, we further investigate this property in order to count the number of existential theories of henselian valuations on a given field, and to find other characterizations of existential t-henselianity.
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@article{arxiv.2603.27612,
title = {A note on existentially t-henselian fields},
author = {Sylvy Anscombe},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.27612},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
Submitted to the proceedings of the conference "DDG40 : Structures alg\'ebriques et ordonn\'ees", held at Banyuls-sur-Mer in August 2025. Added a reference, corrected typos and other small errors