# Imaginaries in valued differential fields I: Finding prolongations

Kolchin seminar in Differential AlgebraFriday, October 21, 201610:15 amGC 5382

# Imaginaries in valued differential fields I: Finding prolongations

### UC Berkeley

In 2000, Scanlon described a theory of existentially closed differential fields where the derivation is contractive: v(d(x)) ≥ v(x), for all x. He also proved a quantifier elimination result for this theory. Around the same time, Haskell, Hrushovski and Macpherson classified all the quotients of definable sets by definable equivalence relations in a algebraically closed valued field by proving elimination of imaginaries (relative to certain quotients of the linear group). In analogy with the pure field situation where elimination of imaginaries for differentially closed fields can be derived from elimination of imaginaries in the underlying algebraically closed field, it was conjectured that Scanlon’s theory of existentially closed contractive valued differential fields also eliminated imaginaries relatively to those same quotients of the linear group.

In this talk, I will describe the first part of the proof that this result indeed holds. Our main goal will be to explain a construction that can be interpreted as finding “generic” prolongations for valued differential constructible sets.

Posted by on October 5th, 2016