Valuation bases for extensions of valued vector spaces.
We construct a totally ordered set Γ of positive infinite germs (i.e. germs of positive real-valued functions that tend to +∞), with order type being the lexicographic product ℵ1 × ℤ2. We show that Γ admits order preserving automorphisms of pairwise distinct growth rates.
Ressayre considered real closed exponential fields and “exponential” integer parts, i.e., integer parts that respect the exponential function. In 1993, he outlined a proof that every real closed exponential field has an exponential integer part. In the present paper, we give a detailed account of Ressayre’s construction and then analyze the complexity. Ressayre’s construction is canonical once we fix the real closed exponential field R, a residue field section k, and a well ordering ≺ on R. The...
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