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Valued fields with a total residue map

Logic 2023-07-12 v2

Abstract

When kk is a finite field, Becker-Denef-Lipschitz (1979) observed that the total residue map res:k( ⁣(t) ⁣)k\text{res}:k(\!(t)\!)\to k, which picks out the constant term of the Laurent series, is definable in the language of rings with a parameter for tt. Driven by this observation, we study the theory VFres,ι\text{VF}_{\text{res},\iota} of valued fields equipped with a linear form res:Kk\text{res}:K\to k which specializes to the residue map on the valuation ring. We prove that VFres,ι\text{VF}_{\text{res},\iota} does not admit a model companion. In addition, we show that the power series field (k( ⁣(t) ⁣),res)(k(\!(t)\!),\text{res}), equipped with such a total residue map, is undecidable whenever kk is an infinite field. As a consequence, we get that (C( ⁣(t) ⁣),Res0)(\mathbb{C}(\!(t)\!), \text{Res}_0) is undecidable, where Res0:C( ⁣(t) ⁣)C:fRes0(f)\text{Res}_0:\mathbb{C}(\!(t)\!)\to \mathbb{C}:f\mapsto \text{Res}_0(f) maps ff to its complex residue at 00.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2203.02374,
  title  = {Valued fields with a total residue map},
  author = {Konstantinos Kartas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.02374},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

13 pages; streamlined some parts and improved the presentation

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