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A counterexample to elimination in systems of algebraic differential equations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

Lee A. Rubel
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 273, Altgeld Hall, 1409, West Green St., Urbana, Illinois, 60801, U.S.A.
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In line with the Ritt–Seidenberg elimination theorem in differential algebra [RIT], [SEI], and with an “approximation theorem” by Denef and Lipshitz [DEL] for formal power series, and with an elimination theorem by the author [RUB1] for C solutions of systems of algebraic differential equations (ADE's), one is led to consider the corresponding elimination question for Cn solutions. Somewhat in the spirit of [RUB2], though, we produce a negative result in this direction.

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Copyright © University College London 1983

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