Asymptotic Fields and Asymptotic Couples

Author(s):  
Matthias Aschenbrenner ◽  
Lou van den Dries ◽  
Joris van der Hoeven

This chapter deals with asymptotic differential fields and their asymptotic couples. Asymptotic fields include Rosenlicht's differential-valued fields and share many of their basic properties. A key feature of an asymptotic field is its asymptotic couple. The chapter first defines asymptotic fields and their asymptotic couples before discussing H-asymptotic couples. It then considers asymptotic couples independent of their connection to asymptotic fields, along with the behavior of differential polynomials as functions on asymptotic fields. It also describes asymptotic fields with small derivation and the operations of coarsening and specialization, algebraic and immediate extensions of asymptotic fields, and differential polynomials of order one. Finally, it proves some useful extension results about asymptotic couples and establishes a property of closed H-asymptotic couples.

Author(s):  
Matthias Aschenbrenner ◽  
Lou van den Dries ◽  
Joris van der Hoeven

This chapter considers the newtonianity of directed unions and proves an analogue of Hensel's Lemma for ω‎-free differential-valued fields of H-type: Theorem 15.0.1. Here K is an H-asymptotic field with asymptotic couple (Γ‎, ψ‎), and γ‎ ranges over Γ‎. The chapter first describes finitely many exceptional values, integration and the extension K(x), and approximating zeros of differential polynomials before proving Theorem 15.0.1, which states: If K is d-valued with ∂K = K, and K is a directed union of spherically complete grounded d-valued subfields, then K is newtonian. In concrete cases the hypothesis K = ∂K in the theorem can often be verified by means of Corollary 15.2.4.


Author(s):  
Matthias Aschenbrenner ◽  
Lou van den Dries ◽  
Joris van der Hoeven

This chapter deals with Newtonian differential fields. Here K is an ungrounded H-asymptotic field with Γ‎ := v(Ksuperscript x ) not equal to {0}. So the subset ψ‎ of Γ‎ is nonempty and has no largest element, and thus K is pre-differential-valued by Corollary 10.1.3. An extension of K means an H-asymptotic field extension of K. The chapter first considers the relation of Newtonian differential fields to differential-henselianity before discussing weak forms of newtonianity and differential polynomials of low complexity. It then proves newtonian versions of d-henselian results in Chapter 7, leading to the following analogue of Theorem 7.0.1: If K is λ‎-free and asymptotically d-algebraically maximal, then K is ω‎-free and newtonian. Finally, it describes unravelers and newtonization.


Author(s):  
Matthias Aschenbrenner ◽  
Lou van den Dries ◽  
Joris van der Hoeven

This chapter deals with eventual quantities, immediate extensions, and special cuts. It first considers the behavior of eventual quantities before discussing Newton weight, Newton degree, and Newton multiplicity as well as Newton weight of linear differential operators. It then establishes the following result: Every asymptotically maximal H-asymptotic field with rational asymptotic integration is spherically complete. The chapter proceeds by describing special (definable) cuts in H-asymptotic fields K with asymptotic integration and introducing some key elementary properties of K, namely λ‎-freeness and ω‎-freeness, which indicate that these cuts are not realized in K. It shows that has these properties. Finally, it looks at certain special existentially definable subsets of Liouville closed H-fields K, along with the behavior of the functions ω‎ and λ‎ on these sets.


2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (06) ◽  
pp. 935-945 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. W. GREENBERG

We describe a method of solving quantum field theories using operator techniques based on the expansion of interacting fields in terms of asymptotic fields. For bound states, we introduce an asymptotic field for each (stable) bound state. We choose the nonrelativistic hydrogen atom as an example to illustrate the method. Future work will apply this N-quantum approach to relativistic theories that include bound states in motion.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (750) ◽  
pp. 157-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvain Rideau

Abstract We answer three related open questions about the model theory of valued differential fields introduced by Scanlon. We show that they eliminate imaginaries in the geometric language introduced by Haskell, Hrushovski and Macpherson and that they have the invariant extension property. These two results follow from an abstract criterion for the density of definable types in enrichments of algebraically closed valued fields. Finally, we show that this theory is metastable.


Author(s):  
Matthias Aschenbrenner ◽  
Lou van den Dries ◽  
Joris van der Hoeven

This chapter deals with differential polynomials. It first presents some basic facts about differential fields that are of characteristic zero with one distinguished derivation, along with their extensions. It then considers various decompositions of differential polynomials in their natural setting, along with valued differential fields and the property of continuity of the derivation with respect to the valuation topology. It also discusses the gaussian extension of the valuation to the ring of differential polynomials and concludes with some basic results on simple differential rings and differentially closed fields. In contrast to the corresponding notions for fields, the chapter shows that differential fields always have proper d-algebraic extensions, and the differential closure of a differential field K is not always minimal over K.


Author(s):  
Matthias Aschenbrenner ◽  
Lou van den Dries ◽  
Joris van der Hoeven

This chapter considers H-fields, pre-differential-valued fields with a field ordering that interacts with the valuation and derivation. Axiomatizing this interaction yields the notion of a pre-H-field; H-fields are d-valued pre-H-fields. The chapter begins by upgrading some basic facts on asymptotic fields to pre-d-valued fields; for example, algebraic extensions of pre-d-valued fields are pre-d-valued, not just asymptotic. It then adjoins integrals to pre-d-valued fields of H-type. It shows that every pre-d-valued field of H-type has a canonical differential-valued extension. It also adjoins exponential integrals to pre-d-valued fields of H-type. Finally, it describes Liouville closed H-fields, and especially the uniqueness properties of Liouville closure.


Author(s):  
Matthias Aschenbrenner ◽  
Lou van den Dries ◽  
Joris van der Hoeven

This chapter introduces the reader to basic field theory by focusing on valued fields. It first considers valuations on fields before discussing the basic properties of valued fields, with emphasis on extensions. It then describes pseudoconvergence in valued fields, along with henselian valued fields. It also shows how to decompose a valuation on a field into simpler ones, leading to an analysis of various special types of pseudocauchy sequences. Because the valuation of is compatible with its natural ordering, some basic facts about fields with compatible ordering and valuation are presented. The chapter concludes by reviewing some basic model theory of valued fields as well as the Newton diagram and Newton tree of a polynomial over a valued field.


2005 ◽  
pp. 131-141
Author(s):  
V. Mortikov

The basic properties of international public goods are analyzed in the paper. Special attention is paid to the typology of international public goods: pure and impure, excludable and nonexcludable, club goods, regional public goods, joint products. The author argues that social construction of international public good depends on many factors, for example, government economic policy. Aggregation technologies in the supply of global public goods are examined.


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