Real structures on minimal ruled surfaces

In this paper, we give a complete description of the deformation classes of real structures on minimal ruled surfaces. In particular, we show that these classes are determined by the topology of the real structure, which means that real minimal ruled surfaces are quasi-simple. As an intermediate result, we obtain the classification, up to conjugation, of real structures on decomposable ruled surfaces.Comment: 24 pages, 3 figure

Uniform bounds on growth in o-minimal structures

We prove that a function definable with parameters in an o-minimal structure is bounded away from infinity as its argument goes to infinity by a function definable without parameters, and that this new function can be chosen independently of the parameters in the original function. This generalizes a result in a paper of Friedman and Miller. Moreover, this remains true if the argument is taken to approach any element of the structure (or plus/minus infinity), and the function has limit any element of the structure (or plus/minus infinity).Comment: 3 pages. To appear in Mathematical Logic Quarterl