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Strongly NIP almost real closed fields

Logic 2022-07-04 v2

Abstract

The following conjecture is due to Shelah-Hasson: Any infinite strongly NIP field is either real closed, algebraically closed, or admits a non-trivial definable henselian valuation, in the language of rings. We specialise this conjecture to ordered fields in the language of ordered rings, which leads towards a systematic study of the class of strongly NIP almost real closed fields. As a result, we obtain a complete characterisation of this class.

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@article{arxiv.2010.14770,
  title  = {Strongly NIP almost real closed fields},
  author = {Lothar Sebastian Krapp and Salma Kuhlmann and Gabriel Lehéricy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.14770},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

To appear in MLQ Math. Log. Q. A previous version of this preprint was part of arXiv:1810.10377. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2010.11832

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