[FOM] Koenigsmann's universal definition of Z in Q
Timothy Y. Chow
tchow at alum.mit.edu
Sun Jan 24 12:16:06 EST 2016
Something else worth mentioning, that I noticed when looking at
Koenigsmann's paper a little more carefully, is that his theorem has been
generalized by Jennifer Park to arbitrary number fields.
J. Park, "A universal first-order formula defining the ring of
integers in a number field," Math. Res. Lett. 20 (2013), 961-980.
Park's proof makes use of some heavier-duty number theory---global class
field theory in particular. Park also notes, "The proofs that follow are
further aided by a theorem, proved and communicated by Tate, which allows
one to find an element x in K that has prescribed Hilbert symbols against
finitely many elements of K. The special case where K = Q is well-known;
for example, see [Serre's Course in Arithmetic], Theorem 4, page 24, but
the general case of K being a global field does not appear in the
literature."
Tim
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