THEMATIC PROGRAMS

March  5, 2009

Thematic Program on o-minimal Structures and Real Analytic Geometry -- January-June 2009

Upcoming Mini-workshops at the Fields Institute

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These mini-workshops are intended to bring people together for two to three days to work on one particular project, while allowing other visitors to the program to participate. Each mini-workshop involves between five and ten core participants and typically focuses on the understanding of a specific problem or solution thereof.

The information below is tentative and subject to change.

Title and dates
Organizers
Abstract and participants

January 30-31, 2009
Mini-workshop on Expansions of the real field by multiplicative groups

January 30 start at 1:30 p.m.
Room 210

Ayhan Gunaydin
Chris Miller
Lou van den Dries, Philipp Hieronymi and Michael Tychonievich

March 5-6, 2009 start at 10:30 am
Mini-workshop on o-minimality for Certain Dulac Transition Maps

Room 210

Tobias Kaiser
Patrick Speissegger
We present the main ideas for proving o-minimality of the expansion of the real field generated by all Dulac transition maps near a non-resonant hyperbolic singularity of a planar analytic vector field. We also show how the existence of (non-explicit) uniform bounds on the number of limit cycles of certain (very special) families of analytic vector fields can be obtained from our approach.

Jean-Philippe Rolin, Dmitry Novikov, Sergei Yakovenko

March 15-21, 2009
Mini-workshop on the Infinitesimal Hilbert's 16th Problem

Room 210

Dmitry Novikov
Sergei Yakovenko
Edward Bierstone, Andrei Gabrielov, Boris Khesin, Askold Khovanskii

March 23-25, 2009
Mini-workshop on New Perspectives in Valuation Theory

Room 210

Franz-Viktor Kuhlmann
Florian Pop
Bernard Teissier
In recent years new perspectives in valuation theory have begun to appear as well as unexpected applications. The two historical flows of valuation theory, namely the Henselian and the Zariskian, are merging like never before in the development of Berkovich geometry and the new approaches to resolution of singularities, which now extend to the singularities of vector fields. One begins to really be able to do analysis on spaces of of valuations, leading to important new results on complex analytic dynamical sytems stemming from a radically new point of view on the use of valuations of the ring of holomorphic functions. There is a new understanding of the structure of spaces of valuations with a given center, exemplified by the valuative tree of Favre-Jonsson, and also of the more global aspects for which tropical geometry gives useful hints. The purpose of the workshop is to gather experts who are contributing to this new perspective so that they can strengthen their common views and share problems and results.

Charles Favre, Mattias Jonsson, Daniel Panazzolo, Florian Pop, Mark Spivakovsky

April 3-4, 2009
Miniworkshop on Differential Kaplansky Theory

Room 210

Salma Kuhlmann
Mickael Matusinski

Let (K,<,d) be an ordered diffenrential field, and v the natural valuation. We assume that d is compatible with v, i.e. that v is a differential valuation in the sense of M. Rosenlicht. Denote by k the residue field and by (G,Ψ) the induced asymptotic couple; i.e. G = v(K) is the value group endowed with the map Ψ(v(a)) := v(a′: =a).

The purpose of this workshop is to study a differential Kaplansky theory in this setting. We want to achieve progress on the following problem: Find necessary and su±cient conditions on (K; <, d) so that: (i) the data (G, Ψ) allows to define a derivation d on the field of generalized series k((G)); (ii) the induced asymptotic couple is precisely (G,Ψ); (iii) there is an order preserving di®erential embedding of (K,<,d) in (k((G)),<,d); (iv) the embedding may be chosen to be truncation closed; i.e. the image of the embedding is closed under the operation of taking initial segments of series. Partial progress has been achieved on this topic, for example regarding item (i), we have described the construction of "well-defined" derivations on k((G)). Regarding item (iii), J.M.Aroca and J. Del Blanco have considered the case of archimedean value group. Other approaches to this problem are described in the works of M. Aschenbrenner - L. v. D. Dries on H - fields, and the works of J. v. D. Hoeven on Transseries.

J. Del Blanco Marana, Franz-Viktor Kuhlmann, Lou van den Dries

June 8-10, 2009
Mini-workshop on Finiteness theorems for certain quasi-regular algebras and Hilbert's 16th problem


Room 210

Abderaouf Mourtada Jean-Philippe Rolin, Patrick Speissegger
Dates TBA
Mini-workshop on decidability in analytic situations
Gareth O. Jones The workshop aims to understand the work of Macintyre and Wilkie on the real exponential field, and the more recent work of Macintyre on Weierstrass functions. The relation with the constructive results of Gabrielov and Vorobjov would also be investigated. The hope is that after careful study of these papers, we would be able to prove further constructive model completeness results for theories related to those above. If this goes to plan, we would then combine the constructive model completeness with recent work around Schanuel?s conjecture, with the aim of proving unconditional decidability results for certain analytic expansions of the real field.

 


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