Lou van den Dries : Motivic integration in vector spaces and related structures

Posted by , part of the Logic Seminar.

At

Dec. 2, 2008, 4 p.m.

In

SEO 612

Abstract

Most of what I will talk about is work by Vinicius C.L. and will be part of his thesis. Vector spaces over division rings are in general not pseudo-finite, but share striking properties with pseudo-finite structures. This can be proved by means of a canonical finitely additive measure on the category of definable sets in such a space. This measure takes polynomial values. Much of this extends to the eq-expansion of a vector space, and some of it to similar structures, like strongly minimal groups.

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