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Defining Integers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 January 2014

Alexandra Shlapentokh
Alexandra Shlapentokh*
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Department of Mathematics, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858, USAE-mail:[email protected], URL: www.personal.ecu.edu/shlapentokha
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Abstract

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This paper surveys the recent developments in the area that grew out of attempts to solve an analog of Hilbert's Tenth Problem for the field of rational numbers and the rings of integers of number fields. It is based on a plenary talk the author gave at the annual North American meeting of ASL at the University of Notre Dame in May of 2009.

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Research Article
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Bulletin of Symbolic Logic , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , June 2011 , pp. 230 - 251
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2011

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