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Exposé on a conjecture of Tougeron

Joseph Becker (1977)

Annales de l'institut Fourier

An algebra homomorphism of the locatized affine rings of an algebraic variety is continuous in the Krull topology of the respective local rings. It is not necessarily open or closed in the Krull topology. However, we show that the induced map on the associated analytic local rings is also open and closed in the Krull topology. To do this we prove a conjecture of Tougeron which states that if η is an analytic curve on an analytic variety V and f is a formal power series which is convergent when restricted...

Extension of the Two-Variable Pierce-Birkhoff conjecture to generalized polynomials

Charles N. Delzell (2010)

Annales de la faculté des sciences de Toulouse Mathématiques

Let h : n 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 i j , for some finite collection of polynomials f i j [ x 1 , ... , x n ] . (A simple example is h ( x 1 ) = | x 1 | = sup { x 1 , - x 1 } .) In 1984, L. Mahé and, independently, G. Efroymson, proved this for n 2 ; it remains open for n 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;...

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