Characterizing decidability in a quasianalytic setting
Abstract
Let denote the expansion of the real ordered field by a family of real-valued functions , where each function in is defined on a compact box and is a member of some quasianalytic class which is closed under the operations of function composition, division by variables, and implicitly defined functions. It is shown that the first order theory of is decidable if and only if two oracles, called the approximation and precision oracles for , are decidable. Loosely stated, the approximation oracle for allows one to approximate any partial derivative of any function in to within any given error, and the precision oracle for allows one to decide when a manifold is contained in a coordinate hyperplane when one is given and a system of equations which defines nonsingularly, where the functions occurring in the equations are rational polynomials of the coordinate variables and the partial derivatives of the functions in . A key component of the proof is the development of a local resolution of singularities procedure which is effective in the approximation and precision oracles for , and in the course of proving our main theorem, numerous theorems about the model theory of such structures are also proven.
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@article{arxiv.1008.2789,
title = {Characterizing decidability in a quasianalytic setting},
author = {Daniel J. Miller},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1008.2789},
year = {2010}
}