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Quantifier elimination in separably closed fields of finite imperfectness degree

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Dan Haran*
Affiliation:
School of Mathematical Sciences, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat-Aviv, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Extract

The theory of separably closed fields of a fixed characteristic and a fixed imperfectness degree is clearly recursively axiomatizable. Ershov [1] showed that it is complete, and therefore decidable. Later it became clear that this theory also has the prime extension property in a suitable language (cf. [4, Proposition 1]); hence it admits quantifier elimination. The purpose of this work is to give an explicit, primitive recursive procedure for such quantifier elimination in the case of a finite imperfectness degree.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1988

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