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DDC - Definability seminar: Decidability and algebraic extensions of the rational numbers September 02, 2020 (10:00 AM PDT - 11:00 AM PDT)
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Location: SLMath: Online/Virtual
Speaker(s) Caleb Springer (Pennsylvania State University)
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To participate in this seminar, please register here: https://www.msri.org/seminars/25206

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Decidability And Algebraic Extensions Of The Rational Numbers

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To participate in this seminar, please register here: https://www.msri.org/seminars/25206

 

Julia Robinson proved that the first-order theory of rational numbers is undecidable, and extended her result to all number fields.  However, the situation gets more complicated for infinite algebraic extensions of the rationals.  Examples show that some infinite algebraic extensions are undecidable, while others are not, and the whole story remains unknown.  This talk will give an overview of some of the known results, including necessary definability results, and present new examples of undecidable totally imaginary fields.

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Decidability And Algebraic Extensions Of The Rational Numbers

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