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On the Pierce-Birkhoff Conjecture for Smooth Affine Surfaces over Real Closed Fields

Sven Wagner (2010)

Annales de la faculté des sciences de Toulouse Mathématiques

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We will prove that the Pierce-Birkhoff Conjecture holds for non-singular two-dimensional affine real algebraic varieties over real closed fields, i.e., if W is such a variety, then every piecewise polynomial function on W can be written as suprema of infima of polynomial functions on W . More precisely, we will give a proof of the so-called Connectedness Conjecture for the coordinate rings of such varieties, which implies the Pierce-Birkhoff Conjecture.

Formal prime ideals of infinite value and their algebraic resolution

Steven Dale Cutkosky, Samar ElHitti (2010)

Annales de la faculté des sciences de Toulouse Mathématiques

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Suppose that R is a local domain essentially of finite type over a field of characteristic 0 , and ν a valuation of the quotient field of R which dominates R . The rank of such a valuation often increases upon extending the valuation to a valuation dominating R ^ , the completion of R . When the rank of ν is 1 , Cutkosky and Ghezzi handle this phenomenon by resolving the prime ideal of infinite value, but give an example showing that when the rank is greater than 1 , there is no natural ideal...