About Zilber's fields

Submitted by Vincenzo Mantova on Sun, 20/02/2011 - 16:56

Event: 

British Postgraduate Model Theory Conference

Institution:  

University of Leeds

City: 

Leeds

Date: 

Friday, 21 January, 2011

Zilber's fields are imaginative algebraic structures which mimic the structure of the complex field equipped with the exponential function, but whose model-theoretic properties are well-known and rather well-behaved. Indeed, provided that we use a suitable infinitary language, their theory is axiomatizable, uncountably categorical and quasi-minimal. It is an open question if analogous properties hold for the classical complex exponential field, and if the complex field itself is just an example of Zilber's field. I will review some basic motivations for the use of Schanuel's Conjecture and existential closure in the definition of Zilber's fields, and I will show an easy way to explicitly build pseudoexponential functions which satisfy the axioms of Zilber's fields.