-Rings and -Porings
-rings are commutative rings whose factor rings modulo prime ideals are valuation rings. -rings occur most naturally in connection with partially ordered rings (= porings) and have been studied only in this context so far. The present note first develops the theory of -rings systematically, without assuming the presence of a partial order. Particular attention is paid to the question of axiomatizability (in the sense of model theory). Partially ordered -rings (-porings) are introduced, and...