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Ordered fields and real algebraic geometry / [edited by D.W. Dubois and T. Recio].

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Format:
Book
Conference/Event
Author/Creator:
Special Session on Ordered Fields and Real Algebraic Geometry, Corporate Author.
Contributor:
Dubois, D. W. (Donald Ward), 1923- editor.
Recio, T. (Tómas), 1949- editor.
American Mathematical Society, issuing body.
Conference Name:
Special Session on Ordered Fields and Real Algebraic Geometry (1981 : San Francisco, Calif.), issuing body.
Special Session on Ordered Fields and Real Algebraic Geometry
Series:
Contemporary mathematics (American Mathematical Society) ; v. 8.
Contemporary mathematics, 0271-4132 ; volume 8
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Ordered fields--Congresses.
Ordered fields.
Geometry, Algebraic--Congresses.
Geometry, Algebraic.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (369 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Providence, Rhode Island : American Mathematical Society, [1982]
Language Note:
English
Contents:
Intro
Contents
Introduction
Normal decompositions of semi-algebraic sets
Some open problems
La topologie du spectre réel
Semialgebraic topology over a real closed field
1. Basic definitions
2. Some results in the theory of semialgebraic spaces
3. An application to Witt rings
4. Triangulation of affine semialgebraic spaces
5. Cohomological dimension
6. The homotopy axiom in semialgebraic cohomology
7. The duality theorems
A finiteness theorem for open semi-algebraic sets, with applications to Hilbert's 17th problem
An (almost) trivial local-global principle for the representation of-1 as a sum of squares in an arbitrary commutative ring
The Nash ring of a real surface
Extension of an order to a simple transcendental extension
Théorie des modèles et fonctions définies positives sur les variétés algébriques réelles
Chains of higher level orderings
Section 1. Chains of orderings
Section 2. 2n-pythagorean fields
Section 3. Extension theory
Section 4. Chain closures
Section 5. Further results on n-pythagorean fields
Bibliography
Some properties of positive derivations on f-rings
Quadratic forms over fields with finitely many orderings
Finitely generated groups of divisibility
On quadratic forms and Abelian varieties over function fields
Order extensions and real algebraic geometry
Real points and real places
The strong topology on real algebraic varieties
The square class invariant for Pythagorean fields
Coherent algebraic sheaves in real algebraic geometry
Digging holes in algebraic closures à la Artin
II.
Notes:
"Proceedings of the Special Session on Ordered Fields and Real Algebraic Geometry, 87th Annual Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, held at San Francisco, California, January 7-11, 1981"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographies.
Description based on print version record.
ISBN:
0-8218-7594-9
0-8218-5007-5

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