We define a generalised Euler characteristic for arc-symmetric sets endowed with a group action. It coincides with the Poincaré series in equivariant homology for compact nonsingular sets, but is different in general. We put emphasis on the particular case of $\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z}$, and give an application to the study of the singularities of Nash function germs via an analog of the motivic zeta function of Denef and Loeser.

Nous définissons l’espace des germes d’arcs réels tracés sur un ensemble semi-algébrique de ${ℝ}^n$, analogue réel de la théorie développée par Denef et Loeser concernant l’espace des germes d’arcs tracés sur une variété algébrique complexe. Puis, reprenant leur méthodes, nous prouvons la rationalité de la série de Poincaré associée à un ensemble semi-algébrique.

We show that any finite connected sum of lens spaces is diffeomorphic to a real component of a uniruled projective variety, and prove a conjecture of János Kollár.

In Example 1, we describe a subset X of the plane and a function on X which has a ${}^k$-extension to the whole ${ℝ}^2$ for each finite, but has no ${}^{\infty }$-extension to ${ℝ}^2$. In Example 2, we construct a similar example of a subanalytic subset of ${ℝ}^5$; much more sophisticated than the first one. The dimensions given here are smallest possible.

Let K be a subfield of the real field, D ⊆ K be a discrete set and f: Dⁿ → K be such that f(Dⁿ) is somewhere dense. Then (K,f) defines ℤ. We present several applications of this result. We show that K expanded by predicates for different cyclic multiplicative subgroups defines ℤ. Moreover, we prove that every definably complete expansion of a subfield of the real field satisfies an analogue of the Baire category theorem.

Let f: ℝⁿ → ℝ be a polynomial function of degree d with f(0) = 0 and ∇f(0) = 0. Łojasiewicz’s gradient inequality states that there exist C > 0 and ϱ ∈ (0,1) such that ${\left|\nabla f\right|\ge C\left|f\right|}^{\varrho }$ in a neighbourhood of the origin. We prove that the smallest such exponent ϱ is not greater than $1-R{(n,d)}^{-1}$ with $R(n,d)=d{(3d-3)}^{n-1}$.

We prove the rationality of the Łojasiewicz exponent for p-adic semi-algebraic functions without compactness hypothesis. In the parametric case, we show that the parameter space can be divided into a finite number of semi-algebraic sets on each of which the Łojasiewicz exponent is constant.

We prove the rationality of the Łojasiewicz exponent for semialgebraic functions without compactness hypothesis. In the parametric situation, we show that the parameter space can be divided into a finite number of semialgebraic sets on each of which the Łojasiewicz exponent is constant.

There is a well-known procedure -induction- for extending an action of a subgroup H of a Lie group G on a topological space X to an action of G on an associated space. Induction can also extend a smooth action of a subgroup H of a Lie group G on a manifold M to a smooth action of G on an associated manifold. In this paper elementary methods are used to show that induction also works in the category of (nonsingular) real algebraic varieties and regular or entire maps if G is a compact abelian Lie...

Letg:U→ℝ (U open in ℝn) be an analytic and K-subanalytic (i. e. definable in ℝanK, whereK, the field of exponents, is any subfield ofℝ) function. Then the set of points, denoted Σ, whereg does not admit an analytic extension is K-subanalytic andg can be extended analytically to a neighbourhood of Ū.

We investigate several extension properties of Fréchet differentiable functions defined on closed sets for o-minimal expansions of real closed fields.

We study the extensibility of piecewise polynomial functions defined on closed subsets of ${ℝ}^2$ to all of ${ℝ}^2$. The compact subsets of ${ℝ}^2$ on which every piecewise polynomial function is extensible to ${ℝ}^2$ can be characterized in terms of local quasi-convexity if they are definable in an o-minimal expansion of $ℝ$. Even the noncompact closed definable subsets can be characterized if semialgebraic function germs at infinity are dense in the Hardy field of definable germs. We also present a piecewise polynomial...

We extend a result of M. Tamm as follows:Let $f:A\to ℝ,A\subseteq {ℝ}^{m+n}$, be definable in the ordered field of real numbers augmented by all real analytic functions on compact boxes and all power functions $x\mapsto x^r:(0,\infty )\to ℝ,r\in ℝ$. Then there exists $N\in \mathbb{N}$ such that for all $(a,b)\in A$, if $y\mapsto f(a,y)$ is $C^N$ in a neighborhood of $b$, then $y\mapsto f(a,y)$ is real analytic in a neighborhood of $b$.

Let $h:{ℝ}^n\to ℝ$ be a continuous, piecewise-polynomial function. The Pierce-Birkhoff conjecture (1956) is that any such $h$ is representable in the form ${sup}_i{inf}_j{f}_{ij}$, for some finite collection of polynomials $f_{ij}\in ℝ[x_1,...,x_n]$. (A simple example is $h\left(x_1\right)=\left|x_1\right|=sup\{x_1,-x_1\}$.) In 1984, L. Mahé and, independently, G. Efroymson, proved this for $n\le 2$; it remains open for $n\ge 3$. In this paper we prove an analogous result for “generalized polynomials” (also known as signomials), i.e., where the exponents are allowed to be arbitrary real numbers, and not just natural numbers;...