Approximate roots of a valuation and the Pierce-Birkhoff conjecture
F. Lucas, J. Madden, D. Schaub, M. Spivakovsky (2012)
Annales de la faculté des sciences de Toulouse Mathématiques
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In this paper, we construct an object, called a system of approximate roots of a valuation, centered in a regular local ring, which describes the fine structure of the valuation (namely, its valuation ideals and the graded algebra). We apply this construction to valuations associated to a point of the real spectrum of a regular local ring . We give two versions of the construction: the first, much simpler, in a special case (roughly speaking, that of rank 1 valuations), the second –...