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The independence relation in separably closed fields

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

G. Srour*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6, Canada

Abstract

We give an alternative proof of the stability of separably closed fields of fixed Éršov invariant to the one given in [W]. We show that in case the Éršov invariant is finite, the theory is in fact equational. We also characterize the independence relation in those theories.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1986

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