Algèbre et géométrie

The following conjecture is due to Shelah--Hasson: Any infinite strongly NIP field is either real closed, algebraically closed, or admits a non-trivial definable henselian valuation, in the language of rings. We specialise this conjecture to ordered fields in the language of ordered rings, which leads towards a systematic study of the class of strongly NIP almost real closed fields. As a result, we obtain a complete characterisation of this class.

Joint with Itay Kaplan and Pierre Simon.Distal theories are NIP theories which are ?Roewholly unstable?R. Chernikov and Simon's ?Roestrong honest definitions?R characterise distal theories as those in which every type is compressible. Adapting recent work in machine learning of Chen, Cheng, and Tang on bounds on the ?Roerecursive teaching dimension?R of a finite concept class, we find that compressibility is dense in NIP structures, i.e. any formula can be completed to a compressible type in S(A). Considering compressibility as an isolation notion (which specialises to l-isolation in stable theories), we […]