DEFINABILITY OF THE NATURAL NUMBERS IN TOTALLY REAL TOWERS OF NESTED SQUARE ROOTS

作者:Vidaux Xavier*; Videla Carlos R
来源:Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 2015, 143(10): 4463-4477.
DOI:10.1090/s0002-9939-2015-12592-0

摘要

For the ring of integers O of a totally real algebraic field, Julia Robinson defines a set A(O) such that either A(O) = {+infinity} or it is an interval in R. She then proves that if this set has a minimum, then the natural numbers can be defined in O, and hence O has undecidable first-order theory. All known examples are such that A(O) has a minimum which is either 4 or +infinity. In this work, we construct two infinite families of subrings of such rings for which inf(A(O)) is strictly between 4 and +infinity. In one family, the infimum is a minimum, whereas in the other family it is not, but we can still define the natural numbers in this case.

  • 出版日期2015-10