Dimension in the realm of transseries

Let $\mathbb T$ be the differential field of transseries. We establish some basic properties of the dimension of a definable subset of ${\mathbb T}^n$, also in relation to its codimension in the ambient space ${\mathbb T}^n$. The case of dimension $0$ is of special interest, and can be characterized both in topological terms (discreteness) and in terms of the Herwig-Hrushovski-Macpherson notion of co-analyzability. The proofs use results by the authors from "Asymptotic Differential Algebra and Model Theory of Transseries", the axiomatic framework for "dimension" in [L. van den Dries, "Dimension of definable sets, algebraic boundedness and Henselian fields", Ann. Pure Appl. Logic 45 (1989), no. 2, 189-209], and facts about co-analyzability from [B. Herwig, E. Hrushovski, D. Macpherson, "Interpretable groups, stably embedded sets, and Vaughtian pairs", J. London Math. Soc. (2003) 68, no. 1, 1-11].Comment: 16 pp; version 2, taking into account comments by the refere

A closedness theorem and applications in geometry of rational points over Henselian valued fields

We develop geometry of algebraic subvarieties of $K^{n}$ over arbitrary Henselian valued fields $K$. This is a continuation of our previous article concerned with algebraic geometry over rank one valued fields. At the center of our approach is again the closedness theorem that the projections $K^{n} \times \mathbb{P}^{m}(K) \to K^{n}$ are definably closed maps. It enables application of resolution of singularities in much the same way as over locally compact ground fields. As before, the proof of that theorem uses i.a. the local behavior of definable functions of one variable and fiber shrinking, being a relaxed version of curve selection. But now, to achieve the former result, we first examine functions given by algebraic power series. All our previous results will be established here in the general settings: several versions of curve selection (via resolution of singularities) and of the \L{}ojasiewicz inequality (via two instances of quantifier elimination indicated below), extending continuous hereditarily rational functions as well as the theory of regulous functions, sets and sheaves, including Nullstellensatz and Cartan's theorems A and B. Two basic tools applied in this paper are quantifier elimination for Henselian valued fields due to Pas and relative quantifier elimination for ordered abelian groups (in a many-sorted language with imaginary auxiliary sorts) due to Cluckers--Halupczok. Other, new applications of the closedness theorem are piecewise continuity of definable functions, H\"{o}lder continuity of definable functions on closed bounded subsets of $K^{n}$, the existence of definable retractions onto closed definable subsets of $K^{n}$, and a definable, non-Archimedean version of the Tietze--Urysohn extension theorem. In a recent preprint, we established a version of the closedness theorem over Henselian valued fields with analytic structure along with some applications.Comment: This paper has been published in Journal of Singularities 21 (2020), 233-254. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1704.01093, arXiv:1703.08203, arXiv:1702.0784

Topological properties of definable sets in tame perfect fields

Let $K$ be a field. We continue to study the recently introduced \'etale open topology on the $K$-points $V(K)$ of a $K$-variety $V$. The \'etale open topology is non-discrete if and only if $K$ is large. If $K$ is separably, real, $p$-adically closed then the \'etale open topology agrees with the Zariski, order, valuation topology, respectively. We show that existentially definable sets in perfect large fields behave well with respect to this topology: such sets are finite unions of \'etale open subsets of Zariski closed sets. This implies that existentially definable sets in arbitrary perfect large fields enjoy some of the well-known topological properties of definable sets in algebraically, real, and $p$-adically closed fields. We introduce and study the class of \'ez fields: $K$ is \'ez if $K$ is large and every definable set is a finite union of \'etale open subsets of Zariski closed sets. This should be seen as a generalized notion of model completeness for large fields. Algebraically closed, real closed, $p$-adically closed, and bounded $\mathrm{PAC}$ fields are \'ez. (In particular pseudofinite fields and infinite algebraic extensions of finite fields are \'ez.) We develop the basics of a theory of definable sets in \'ez fields. This gives a uniform approach to the theory of definable sets across all characteristic zero local fields and a new topological theory of definable sets in bounded $\mathrm{PAC}$ fields. We also show that some prominent examples of possibly non-model complete model-theoretically tame fields (characteristic zero Henselian fields and Frobenius fields) are \'ez

On finite imaginaries

We study finite imaginaries in certain valued fields, and prove a conjecture of Cluckers and Denef.Comment: 15p

Expansions which introduce no new open sets

We consider the question of when an expansion of a topological structure has the property that every open set definable in the expansion is definable in the original structure. This question is related to and inspired by recent work of Dolich, Miller and Steinhorn on the property of having o-minimal open core. We answer the question in a fairly general setting and provide conditions which in practice are often easy to check. We give a further characterisation in the special case of an expansion by a generic predicate

Definable equivalence relations and zeta functions of groups

We prove that the theory of the $p$-adics ${\mathbb Q}_p$ admits elimination of imaginaries provided we add a sort for ${\rm GL}_n({\mathbb Q}_p)/{\rm GL}_n({\mathbb Z}_p)$ for each $n$. We also prove that the elimination of imaginaries is uniform in $p$. Using $p$-adic and motivic integration, we deduce the uniform rationality of certain formal zeta functions arising from definable equivalence relations. This also yields analogous results for definable equivalence relations over local fields of positive characteristic. The appendix contains an alternative proof, using cell decomposition, of the rationality (for fixed $p$) of these formal zeta functions that extends to the subanalytic context. As an application, we prove rationality and uniformity results for zeta functions obtained by counting twist isomorphism classes of irreducible representations of finitely generated nilpotent groups; these are analogous to similar results of Grunewald, Segal and Smith and of du Sautoy and Grunewald for subgroup zeta functions of finitely generated nilpotent groups.Comment: 89 pages. Various corrections and changes. To appear in J. Eur. Math. So