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Exponential fields and Conway's omega-map

Logic 2024-01-24 v2

Abstract

Inspired by Conway's surreal numbers, we study real closed fields whose value group is isomorphic to the additive reduct of the field. We call such fields omega-fields and we prove that any omega-field of bounded Hahn series with real coefficients admits an exponential function making it into a model of the theory of the real exponential field. We also consider relative versions with more general coefficient fields.

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@article{arxiv.1810.03029,
  title  = {Exponential fields and Conway's omega-map},
  author = {Alessandro Berarducci and Salma Kuhlmann and Vincenzo Mantova and Mickaël Matusinski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.03029},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

15 pages; minor corrections and missing references; to appear in Proc. Amer. Math. Soc

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