Model Theory, Algebra, and Geometry

Anand Pillay editor Deirdre Haskell editor Charles Steinhorn editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

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Leading experts survey the connections between model theory and semialgebraic, subanalytic, p-adic, rigid and diophantine geometry.

Model theory has made substantial contributions to semialgebraic, subanalytic, p-adic, rigid and diophantine geometry. In this book, originally published in 2000, leading experts provide the necessary background to understanding the model theory and mathematics behind these applications.Model theory has made substantial contributions to semialgebraic, subanalytic, p-adic, rigid and diophantine geometry. These applications range from a proof of the rationality of certain Poincare series associated to varieties over p-adic fields, to a proof of the Mordell-Lang conjecture for function fields in positive characteristic. In some cases (such as the latter) it is the most abstract aspects of model theory which are relevant. This book, originally published in 2000, arising from a series of introductory lectures for graduate students, provides the necessary background to understanding both the model theory and the mathematics behind these applications. The book is unique in that the whole spectrum of contemporary model theory (stability, simplicity, o-minimality and variations) is covered and diverse areas of geometry (algebraic, diophantine, real analytic, p-adic, and rigid) are introduced and discussed, all by leading experts in their fields.

ISBN: 9780521780681

Dimensions: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm

Weight: 510g

236 pages