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Complete local rings as domains

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

V. Stoltenberg-Hansen  and
J. V. Tucker
V. Stoltenberg-Hansen
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Uppsala University, S-752 38 Uppsala, Sweden
J. V. Tucker
Affiliation:
Centre for Theoretical Computer Science, University of Leeds, Leeds 1S2 9TJ, England
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Contents: Introduction. §1: Computable rings and modules. §2: Ideal membership relation. §3: Effective structured domains. §4: Completion of a local ring as a domain. §5: The recursive completion. Epilogue. References.

Introduction. Completion is an important general mathematical device. Often, but not always, a completion takes the following form. Let A be a topological algebraic structure whose topology is derived from a metric. For A, a topological algebra  and an embedding i: A →  are constructed such that  is a complete metric space in which A is densely embedded by i. The long list of structures for which such completions exist begins with Cantor's construction of the real number field and includes objects like the p-adic integers, Baire space, and Boolean algebras. In Bourbaki [6] a careful and thorough account of completions for arbitrary topological groups and fields is given, for which it is important to note that the topological structures need not be metrizable, but must possess a uniformity.

The effectiveness of the completion process of a computable structure A cannot be readily studied using the tools of computable algebra, simply because the resulting structure  is almost invariably uncountable. However, in particular cases, it has been possible to define and study the substructure Ak of computable elements of Â; this has been done for the structures mentioned above, starting with the field of recursive real numbers.

In this paper we analyse the effectivity of the completion of a local ring R. We do this using structured Scott-Ershov domains. Our study may be considered as a prototype containing methods applicable to a broad class of completions, including all the examples mentioned above, except for the real number field, which needs a generalisation of the domain concept.

A Scott-Ershov domain D formalises how a set Dt of possibly “infinite” elements, called total elements, is constructed from a set Dc of “finite” elements, called compact elements. This is achieved by means of an approximation ordering which determines a topology on D and, in particular, on Dt . Our methodology is to associate to a given topological algebra A a structured domain D(A) such that the total elements D(A)t form a topological algebra topologically isomorphic to A. In such circumstances A is said to be domain definable by D(A). The theory of computability for domains is now applied to study the effectivity of the topological algebra A.

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The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 53 , Issue 2 , June 1988 , pp. 603 - 624
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1988

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