English

Dense subfields of henselian fields, and integer parts

Commutative Algebra 2010-03-31 v1

Abstract

We show that every henselian valued field LL of residue characteristic 0 admits a proper subfield KK which is dense in LL. We present conditions under which this can be taken such that LKL|K is transcendental and KK is henselian. These results are of interest for the investigation of integer parts of ordered fields. We present examples of real closed fields which are larger than the quotient fields of all their integer parts. Finally, we give rather simple examples of ordered fields that do not admit any integer part and of valued fields that do not admit any subring which is an additive complement of the valuation ring.

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@article{arxiv.1003.5681,
  title  = {Dense subfields of henselian fields, and integer parts},
  author = {Franz-Viktor Kuhlmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1003.5681},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

23 pages; Proceedings of the Workshop and Conference on Logic, Algebra, and Arithmetic, held October 18-22, 2003.

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