UNIVERSITÉS PARIS VI et VII
Institut de mathématiques UMR 7586 et Équipe de logique UMR 7056

Séminaire : structures algébriques ordonnées


Horaire et localisation usuels (*) :
Mardi 14h15-16h00.
Salle 5D91 - 175 rue du Chevaleret, Paris 13ème.
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F. Delon, M. Dickmann, D. Gondard.
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Liste des exposés

30/03/10 : M. Dickmann
Semi-groupes réels I

16/03/10 : L. Belair (U. Quebec, Montréal, Canada)
Les vecteurs de Witt et l'algèbre universelle, d'après Joyal résumé

16/02/10 : F. Miraglia (U. S. Paulo, Bresil) résumé
Faithfully quadratic rings (II)

09/02/10 : F. Miraglia (U. S. Paulo, Bresil) résumé
Faithfully quadratic rings (I)

08/12/09 : T. Servi (Centro de Matemática e Aplicações Fundamentais, Lisbonne, Portugal) résumé
Sur la décidabilité du corps des nombres réels avec une fonction puissance générique

10/11/09 : L. Darnière (U. Angers) résumé
(Co)dimension dans les algèbres (co)Heyting
[Travail commun avec M. Junker (U. Freiburg, Allemagne)]

06/10/09 : J. Makowsky (Technion, Haifa, Israel)
Generalized Chromatic Polynomials and Totally Categorical Structures
Séance conjointe avec le séminaire Complexité, Logique et Informatique salles 5D91 ou 5C3 (sera annoncé ulterieurement).

29/09/09 : D. Haskell (McMaster U., Hamilton, Ontario, Canada) résumé
Une borne pour la densité VC des formules dans quelques théories avec la NIP (preuves)

02/06/09 : P. Simon (ENS, Paris) résumé
Théories DP-minimales et arbres

05/05/09 : D. Haskell (McMaster U., Ontario, Canada) résumé
VC density in some theories of fields
Séminaire « hors les murs » : 14h15-16h00 square Héloise et Abélard (tout près du site de Chevaleret). En venant de l'entrée du parc située dans la rue Duchefdelaville, l'exposé se tiendra sur la gauche (au même endroit que la séance du 4 Mai du Séminaire Général). En cas d'intempéries, repli en salle 8B1 à Chevaleret.

27/01/09 : M. Marshall (U. Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada) résumé
The space of R-places of R(x,y) is not metrizable
Exceptionnellement, exposé en salle 5D91

16/12/08 : A. Prestel (U. Konstanz, Allemagne) résumé
Representations of positive real polynomials

09/12/08 : F. Delon (CNRS, U. Paris 7)
Géométries des structures C-minimales pures

02/12/08 : F. Delon (CNRS, U. Paris 7)
Orthogonalité des parties denses et discrètes dans une structure C-minimale avec échange

25/11/08 : V. Astier (U. College, Dublin, Irlande) résumé
Les groupes spéciaux réduits profinis sont des groupes spéciaux de corps
[Collaboration avec Hugo Mariano (Sao Paulo)]
Exceptionnellement, exposé en salle 5A92

18/11/08 D. Plaumann (U. Konstanz, Allemagne) résumé
Denominators in sums of squares and a theorem of Roggero

21/10/08 : M.-H. Mourgues
Structures C-minimales aleph_0 catégoriques
Exceptionnellement, exposé à 14h30 (en salle 8B1)

14/10/08 : F. Maalouf (U. Paris 7)
Des résultats partiels sur la trichotomie de Zilber dans les structures C-minimales
Exceptionnellement, exposé en salle 5C12

07/10/08 : F. Delon (CNRS et U. Paris 7)
Clôture algebrique dans les C-structures C-minimales pures (suite)
Exceptionnellement, exposé de 14h à 15h (en salle 8B1)

30/09/08 : F. Delon (CNRS et U. Paris 7)
Clôture algebrique dans les C-structures C-minimales pures

30/09/08 : F. Delon (CNRS et U. Paris 7)
Structures C-minimales non nécessairement denses


01/07/08 : F.-V. Kuhlmann (U. Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada) résumé
Valuation theory and model theory of tame fields

24/06/08 : M. Marshall (U. Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada) résumé
Strip conjecture (les préliminaires seront rappelés)

17/06/08 : M. Marshall (U. Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada) résumé
Strip conjecture (preuve de résultats préliminaires)

20/05/08 : S. Kuhlmann (U. Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada) résumé
Positive polynomials on projective limits of real algebraic varieties

18/03/08 : N. Guzy (U. Mons-Hainaut, Belgique)
Anneaux p-adiquement clos

19/02/08 : S. Miraglia (U. Sao Paulo, Brésil)
Special groups, rings and algebras of continuous functions

27/11/07 : S. Kuhlmann (U. Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada)
Polynômes positifs (suite)

23/10/07 : M. Marshall (U. Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada) résumé
Closures of preorderings and quadratic modules in polynomial rings

2, 9 et 16 octobre 2007 : S. Kuhlmann (U. Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada)
Polynômes positifs


03/07/07 T. Scanlon (U. California, Berkeley, USA) résumé
Difference equations and the André-Oort conjecture

19/06/07 F. Lucas (U. Angers) résumé
Conjectures liées à la conjecture de Pierce-Birkhoff

03/04/07 P. Simonetta (U. Paris 7)
Groupes abeliens valués U-minimaux (C-minimaux)

20/03/07 S. Kuhlmann (U. Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada) résumé
Polynômes positifs sur des produits fibrés (travail en collaboration avec Mihai Putinar)

06/03/07 F. Maalouf (U. Paris 7)
Structures C-minimales localement modulaire

13/02/07 M. Tressl (U. Passau, Allemagne) résumé
Elementary properties of Zariski - and real spectra (Joint work with Niels Schwartz)

06/02/07 F. Miraglia (U. Sao Paulo, Brésil)
Quadratic form theory over preordered von Neumann-regular rings


30/05/06 C. Rivière (U. Paris 7) résumé
Une modèle-compagne pour la théorie des corps différentiels munis de m ordres

09/05/06 F.-V. Kuhlmann (U. Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada) résumé
Maps on ultrametric spaces, the implicit function theorem and differential Hensel's lemmas

31/01/06 J. Kirby (U. Oxford, Royaume-Uni)
L'exposé fait suite à celui de la veille au Séminaire Général intitulé « Model theory of some differential equations »

24/01/06 F. Miraglia (U. Sao Paulo, Brésil, et U. Paris 7)
Algebraic K-theory and rings with many units

13/12/05 F. Broglia (U. Pise, Italie) résumé
Some remarks about the Global Analytic Nullstellensatz

22/11/05 D. Plaumann (U. Konstanz, Allemagne) résumé
Bounded polynomial maps and the moment problem

25/10/05 Y. N. Moschovakis (U. California, Los Angeles, USA) résumé
Lower bounds for co-primeness and other decision problems in arithmetic

11/10/05 A. Prestel (U. Konstantz, Allemagne)
More about positive polynomials

18/10/05 J. Ruiz (U. Complutense, Madrid, Espagne) résumé
Representation of sums of squares of linear forms

27/09/05 M. Marshall (U. Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada)
A counterexample to the pp conjecture in the theory of spaces of orderings

20/09/05 A. Khelif (IUFM Paris et U. Paris 7) résumé
Idéaux maximaux d'anneaux de fonctions généralisées et compactification


07/06/05 I. Efrat (U. Ben Gurion, Israël) résumé
Generalized Milnor K-rings, orderings, and valuations

24/05/05 C. Sureson (CNRS, U. Paris 7)
Une généralisation des anneaux von Neumann réguliers inspirée des anneaux de Rumely

10/05/05 G. Cherlin (U. Rutgers, New Jersey, USA et U. Lyon 1)
Graphes universels avec sous-graphes exclus

22/03/05 V. Powers (U. Emory, Atlanta, USA) résumé
A New Approach to Hilbert's Theorem on Ternary Quartics

01/03/05 F. Miraglia (U. Sao Paulo, Bresil, et U. Paris 7)
Algebraic K-theory of special groups; an overview

08/02/05 M. Tressl (U. Regensburg et Passau, Allemagne, et U. Paris 7)
Completion of real closed valued fields by stages

18/01/05 A. Nies (U. Auckland, Nouvelle Zélande) résumé
Quasi-finitely axiomatizable groups

19/10/04 J. Madden (Louisiana State U., Bâton Rouge, États-Unis, et U. Angers)
Peculiar ways of ordering real algebras

05/10/04 E. Hrushovski (U. Hébraïque, Jerusalem, Israël, et ENS Paris) résumé
Imaginaries in Henselian valued fields

28/09/04 D. Gondard (U. Paris 6)
Clôture algébrique d'un corps muni d'un fan de valuations


29/06/04 M. Tressl (U. Regensburg, Allemagne) résumé
An elementary theory of real closed fields which carry all o-minimal expansions of R

22/06/04 J. Wilson (U. Oxford, Grande-Bretagne, et U. Paris 7) résumé
Characterizations of finite soluble groups

15/06/04 Exceptionnellement en salle 1C1
A. Petrovich (U. Buenos Aires, Argentine, et U. Paris 7) résumé
Fans in real spectra

01/06/04 T. Scanlon (U. of California, Berkeley, USA) résumé
A local version of the André-Oort conjecture

25/05/04 F.-V. Kuhlmann (U. Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, et U. Paris 7) résumé
Classification of Artin-Schreier defect extensions, and characterizations of algebraically maximal and defectless fields

18/05/04 L. Darnière (U. Angers) résumé
Modele-complétion pour les treillis de dimension finie

11/05/04 G. Leloup (U. Le Mans)
Séries formelles à exposants cycliquement ordonnés et leurs valuations

29/04/04 A. Martin-Pizzarro (Humboldt U., Berlin, Allemagne) résumé
Galois cohomology of surgical fields

27/04/04 F.-V. Kuhlmann (U. Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada) résumé
Extensions of valuations to rational function fields

09/03/04 S. Kuhlmann (U. Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada) résumé
Positivstellensatze et problème des moments

02/03/04 H. Lombardi (U. Franche-Comté)
Interprétation constructive des espaces spectraux ; application à l'amélioration de quelques théorèmes en algèbre commutative (Kronecker, Stable Range, Splitting off, Forster-Swan...)

10/02/04 F. Miraglia (U. Sao Paulo, Brésil)
Rings with many units and special groups

19/12/03 M. Marshall (U. Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada)
Optimization of quadratic polynomials on a discrete hypercube

16/12/03 M. Kotchetov (U. Carleton, Ottawa, Canada) résumé
Orderability of Hopf algebras

09/12/03 A. Wilkie (Oxford, UK)
On a question of Steinhorn

28/10/03 M. Dickmann (CNRS - U. Paris 7)
Spectres réels abstraits, semigroupes réels et logique ternaire (II)

21/10/03 M. Dickmann (CNRS - U. Paris 7)
Spectres réels abstraits, semigroupes réels et logique ternaire (I)

14/10/03 J. Cimpric (U. Ljubliana, Slovenie)
Ordered Hopf Algebra


01/07/03 S. Kuhlmann (U. Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada)
Primes and irreducibles in exponential integer parts of exponential fields (joint work with Mikhail Kotchetov)

17/06/03 A. Pillay (U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Algebraic D-groups and differential Galois theory (2)

10/06/03 A. Pillay (U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Algebraic D-groups and differential Galois theory (1)

03/06/03 P. Velez (U. Antonio de Nebrija, Madrid, Espagne)
On the non reduced order spectrum : some remarks and examples

27/05/03 M.J. Edmundo (Lisbonne, Portugal, et Oxford, UK)
Invariance of o-minimal singular (co)homology in elementary extensions

29/04/03 D. Haskell (U. McMaster, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada)
Élimination des imaginaires pour les p-adiques (d'après Hrushovski)

22/04/03 Reporté
J. Rachunek (U. Olomouc, République Tchèque)
Ordered algebras of non-commutative logics

18/03/03 L. Belair (U. du Quebec, Montréal, Quebec, Canada)
Lemme de Hensel à la Greenberg

11/03/03 D. Haskell (U. McMaster, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada)
L'élimination des imaginaires dans les corps algébriquement clos valués (IV)

04/03/03 D. Haskell (U. McMaster, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada)
L'élimination des imaginaires dans les corps algébriquement clos valués (III)

18/02/03 F. Miraglia (U. Sao Paulo, Brésil)
Groupes spéciaux profinis

25/02/03 M. Marshall (U. Sakatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada)
Holomorphy rings and complete real spectra

11/02/03 D. Haskell (U. McMaster, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada)
L'élimination des imaginaires dans les corps algébriquement clos valués (II)

04/02/03 D. Haskell (U. McMaster, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada) résumé
L'élimination des imaginaires dans les corps algébriquement clos valués (I)

21/01/03 M. Tressl (U. Regensburg, Allemagne)
A uniform companion for differential fields of characteristic 0

05/11/02 A.M.W. Glass (Cambridge University, Grande-Bretagne)
Rooted wreath products

08/10/02 S. Kuhlmann (U. Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada)
Parties exponentielles entières du corps de séries exponentielles-logarithmiques


02/07/02 D. Gondard (U. Paris 6 et Institut de Maths. de Jussieu)
R-places

07/06/02 A. Prestel (U. Konstanz, Allemagne)
Representation theorems for commutative real rings
Cet exposé aura lieu exceptionnellement UN VENDREDI, à 14h30, en salle 0D1.

07/05/02 F. Lucas (U. Angers)
Description des idéaux séparants du spectre réel
Cet exposé fera suite à ceux de Lucas et de Spivakovski de décembre 2001.

30/04/02 A. Nesin (Bilgi University, Turquie, et U. Lyon 1)
Les 2-groupes de Suzuki
Cet exposé fera suite à celui de Nesin dans le Séminaire Général, lundi 29 Avril 2002. Il aura lieu en salle 1C1 (notre salle habituelle).

29/04/02 R. Redfield (Hamilton College, N. York, USA)
Lattice-ordered fields of quotients
Cet exposé aura lieu, exceptionnellement, LUNDI 29 Avril à 16h (c'est-à-dire après le Séminaire Général), salle 0D4.

05/03/02 K. Zahidi (U. Paris 7)
La conjecture de Mazur et le 10e. problème de Hilbert

19/02/02 Reporté
F. Miraglia (U. Sao Paulo, Brésil)
The space of saturated subgroups of finite index of a reduced special group

18/12/01 D. Macpherson (U. Leeds, Grande-Bretagne)
Relative categoricity and interpretation of groups

11/12/01 M. Spivakovsky (U. Toulouse III)
Sur la conjecture de Pierce-Birkhoff

04/12/01 B. Teissier (Institut de Mathematiques de Jussieu)
Deux ou trois choses que je sais sur les valuations

27/11/01 G. Leloup (U. Le Mans)
Un regard sur les anneaux : les groupes de divisibilité

13/11/01 I. Bonnard (Max Planck Institute, Bonn, Allemagne)
Fonctions algébriquement constructibles

06/11/01 M. Dickmann (CNRS - U. Paris 7)
Groupes spéciaux réduits et modèles de la logique de la mécanique quantique

23/10/01 F. Lucas (U. Angers)
Autour de la conjecture de Pierce-Birkhoff

06/11/01 M. Dickmann (CNRS - U. Paris 7).
Les groupes spéciaux comme modèles de la logique de la mécanique quantique

19/06/01 S. KUHLMANN (U. Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada)
Chaines lexicographiques

12/06/01 X. VIDAUX (U. Angers et U. Heraklion, Grèce)
10ème problème de Hilbert pour le corps de fonctions méromorphes globales p-adiques

15/05/01 J. KOENIGSMANN (U. Konstanz, Allemagne) résumé
Encoding valuations in absolute Galois group

24/04/01 M. TRESSL
Noether normalization in real differential algebra

27/03/01 : A. MACINTYRE (U. d'Edimbourg, Grande-Bretagne)
Approximating Volumes in o-minimal and p-minimal Theories

13/03/01 : V. ASTIER (U. Regensburg, Allemagne)
Algèbres de quaternions non associatives

06/03/01 : M. DICKMANN (U. Paris 7)
Plongements de groupes spéciaux des corps formellement réels dans leur enveloppe pythagoricienne (2)
Suite et fin de l'exposé de F. MIRAGLIA du 20.02.2001.

27/02/01 : J. DENEF (U. Leuven, Belgique)
Some problems on p-adic integration

20/02/01 : F. MIRAGLIA (U. Sao Paulo, Brésil)
Special group embeddings of formally real fields into their Pythagorean closure (1)

15/01/01 : R. CLUCKERS (K. U. Leuven, Belgique)
Semi-algebraic p-adic Geometry
(exceptionnellement à 14h salle 0D9)

17/10/00 : F. ACQUISTAPACE (U. Pise, Italie)
Schmüdgen analytique.

10/10/00 : F. BROGLIA (U. Pise, Italie)
Propriété d'Artin-Lang pour les germes de fonctions C^infini.

26/09/00 : A. PETROVICH (U. Buenos Aires, Argentine)
Three-valued logic and abstract real spectra.


22/06/00 : M. MARSHALL (U. Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada) résumé
Recent developments in semi-algebraic geometry arising from Schmuedgen's solution of the K-Moment Problem
Exceptionnellement, 17h salle 0 C 2

20/06/00 : S. KUHLMANN (U. Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada) résumé
A maximality property of the Hardy field H(Ranpowers).

30/05/00 : F. LUCAS (U. Angers)
Groupes réticulés à valeurs spéciales

23/05/00 : M.-H. MOURGUES (IUFM Creteil et U. Paris 7)
Corps p-minimaux avec des fonctions de Skolem définissables

16/05/00 : M. DICKMANN (U. Paris 7)
Bornes dans la théorie des corps pythagoriciens

25/04/00 : J. L. BELL (U. Western Ontario, Canada)
Boolean algebras and distributive lattices treated constructively

14/03/00 : O. FRECON (U. Lyon 1)
Sous-groupes de Hall généralisés dans les groupes de rang de Morley fini (salle 1C7 ou 1C9)

25/01/00 : P. DELLUNDE (U. Barcelona, Espagne, et U. Paris 7)
Corps séparablement clos considérés comme modules

11/01/00 : F.-V. KUHLMANN (U. Saskatoon, Canada)
A theorem about maps on ultrametric spaces and its applications to valued differential and difference fields

07/12/99 : A. DELOBELLE (U. Paris 7)
Conjecture de Zil'ber dans les Géométries de Zariski

07/12/99 : A. DELOBELLE (U. Paris 7)
Géométries de Zariski

16/11/99 : E. JALIGOT (U. Lyon 1) résumé,
Quelques configurations de petits groupes simples de rang de Morley fini

25/10/99 : K. TENT (U. Würzburg, Allemagne)
Split (B, N)-pairs of rank 2

05/10/99 : E. HRUSHOVSKI (U. Jerusalem, Israel)
Élimination des imaginaires dans les corps valués algébriquement clos.


29/06/99 : F. LOESER (U. Paris 6)
Corps pseudo-finis et invariants additifs des ensembles definissables

22/06/99 : C. HOLLAND (U. Bowling Green, USA, et U. du Mans) résumé
Equational classes of automorphism groups of ordered structures

18/06/99 : A. PRESTEL (U. Konstanz, Allemagne)
Model theory of real closed rings

08/06/99 : C. SCHEIDERER (U. Duisburg, Allemagne)
Sums of squares in local and global geometric rings

09/02/99 : F. MIRAGLIA (U. Sao Paulo, Brésil)
Projective modules in sheaves over quantales

15/12/98 : Marie Hélène MOURGUES (IUFM Créteil)
Inégalités de tojasiewicz pour les expansions o-minimales de R (2)

08/12/98 : Marie Hélène MOURGUES (IUFM Créteil)
Inégalités de tojasiewicz pour les expansions o-minimales de R

01/12/98 : François LUCAS (U. Angers)
Spectres réels

24/11/98 : Françoise DELON (U. Paris 7)
Corps séparablement clos

10/11/98 : François LUCAS (U. Angers)
Paires de groupes abéliens ordonnés divisibles

03/11/98 : Patrick SIMONETTA
Groupes C-minimaux

20/10/98 : Luc BELAIR (UQAM, Montréal, Canada)
Vecteur de Witt avec un prédicat pour les représentants de Teichmuller, d'après van den Dries

06/10/98 : Françoise DELON (U. Paris 7)
17ème problème de Hilbert pour les sommes de puissances 2n dans les corps des fonctions


30/06/98 : Salma KUHLMANN (U. de Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada)
La non-unicité de l'exponentielle

23/06/98 : Franz-Viktor KUHLMANN (U. de Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada)
Valuation theoretic and model-theoretic aspects of local uniformization

28/04/98 : Luck DARNIÈRE (U. Rennes 1) résumé
Anneaux PAC, PRC ou PpC

31/03/98 : MIRAGLIA
K-theory of special groups




Liste des résumés

16/03/10 : L. Belair (U. Quebec, Montréal, Canada)
Les vecteurs de Witt et l'algèbre universelle, d'après Joyal
L'algèbre universelle et la théorie des catégories donnent un éclairage particulier sur l'anneau des vecteurs de Witt. Je vais illustrer ces idées à l'aide de l'exemple plus familier de l'anneau des séries formelles, en faisant le parallèle avec les vecteurs de Witt. Je ferai un rappel des notions utilisées sur les catégories. On peut dire que l'idée essentielle est que le foncteur « anneau des vecteurs de Witt « est un foncteur adjoint.

16/02/10 : F. Miraglia (U. S. Paulo, Bresil)
Faithfully quadratic rings (I et II)
Dans le premier de ces deux exposés nous allons établir les bases d'une théorie des formes quadratiques sur plusieurs classes, assez étendues, d'anneaux préordonnés. (Nous ne considérons ici que des formes quadratiques diagonales à coefficients inversibles.) Cela se fait au moyen d'une notion "intrinsèque" d'isométrie (qui prend en compte le préordre de l'anneau). Nous donnons des axiomes très simples pour cette notion d'isométrie dont la satisfaction garantit que la théorie "intrinsèque" coïncide avec la théorie "formelle", via les groupes spéciaux. L'identité de ces deux approches entraîne des conséquences assez fortes.
Dans le deuxième exposé nous allons démontrer que les axiomes ci-dessus sont vérifiés par certaines classes très étendues d'anneaux préordonnés, parmi elles :
  1. une grande parties des anneaux préordonnés avec beaucoup d'éléments inversibles (rings with many units) ;
  2. les f-anneaux réduits contenant les rationnels dans leur ordre naturel (dont les anneaux de fonctions continues réelles) ;
  3. les anneaux d'holomorphie réelle des corps formellement réels.

08/12/09 : T. Servi (Centro de Matemática e Aplicações Fundamentais, Lisbonne, Portugal)
Sur la décidabilité du corps des nombres réels avec une fonction puissance générique
(Travail en commun avec G. Jones) Récemment nous avons démontré que, si A est un nombre réel qui n'est pas définissable dans le corps réel avec exponentiation, alors la théorie du corps réel avec la fonction puissance x^A est décidable, relativement à un oracle pour la coupure rationnelle de A. Je vais expliquer la preuve de cet énoncé et donner une preuve de l'existence d'un nombre réel générique calculable.

10/11/09 : L. Darnière (U. Angers)
(Co)dimension dans les algèbres (co)Heyting
Les algèbres de Heyting sont à la logique intuitionniste ce que les algèbres de Boole sont à la logique classique. Toutefois leur combinatoire nettement plus complexe n'est pas encore bien comprise, même dans le cas finiment engendré. Nous verrons comment une certaine notion de (co)dimension, calquée sur celle de la géométrie algébrique mais valable pour les éléments d'un treillis distributif quelconque, permet 1) d'apporter un peu d'intuition géométrique sur la structure des algèbres co-Heyting (nées de Brouwer), 2) de définir sur ces algèbres une pseudométrique ayant de bonnes propriétés au moins dans le cas de présentation finie, 3) d'exhiber une axiomatisation finie (et éclairante) pour les modèles-complétions de 5 des 7 variétés d'algèbres de Heyting qui en admettent une, et quelques lumières nouvelles sur les deux qui résistent encore.

29/09/09 : D. Haskell (McMaster U., Ontario, Canada)
Une borne pour la densité VC des formules dans quelques théories avec la NIP (preuves)
Dans mon exposé au séminaire générale de logique (21/09/09) j'ai présenté un théorème qui donne une borne pour la densité VC des formules dans quelques théories avec NIP. Dans ce deuxieme exposé je donnerai la démonstration et l'illustrerai sur un exemple : celui des corps P-minimaux.

02/06/09 : P. Simon (ENS, Paris)
Théories DP-minimales et arbres
Les théories dp-minimales ont été introduites récemment suite aux travaux de Shelah sur les théories NIP. Elles constituent une généralisation abstraite des théories o-minimales et C-minimales. Je montrerai dans cet exposé que toutes les théories d'arbre pur sont dp-minimales.

05/05/09 : D. Haskell (McMaster U., Ontario, Canada)
VC density in some theories of fields
The relationship between finite VC (Vapnik-Chervonenkis) dimension and the independence property for formulae in first-order theories was observed by C. Laskowski in 1992. Since then, some explicit bounds on VC dimension have been computed, although they are all rather large. The related notion of VC density can also be understood model-theoretically, and seems to be easier to compute. In this talk, I will explain the above terms, with particular reference to theories of fields. I will show how the VC density can be calculated in some cases.

27/01/09 : M. Marshall (U. Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada)
The space of R-places of R(x,y) is not metrizable
Denote by R the field of real numbers. For n = 1, the space of R-places of the rational function field R(x1,...,xn) is homeomorphic to the real projective line. For n > 1, the structure is much more complicated. I will prove that the space of R-places of the rational function field R(x,y) is not metrizable. This result is announced by Machura and Osiak in arXiv:0803.0676 (March 2008) but there are mistakes in the proof. The proof I present fixes the mistakes and at the same time it is much simpler. I will also explain how the proof generalizes to show that the space of R-places of any finitely generated formally real field extension of R of transcendence degree > 1 is not metrizable. I will also consider the more general question of when the space of R-places of a finitely generated formally real field extension of a real closed field is metrizable, and provide some partial answers. This is joint work with Machura and Osiak.
See my webpage for the preprint of our paper.

16/12/08 A. Prestel (U. Konstanz, Allemagne)
Representations of positive real polynomials
We consider finite sequences h = (h1,...,hs) of real polynomials in X1,...,Xn and assume that the semi-algebraic subset S(h) of Rn defined by h1(a1,...,an) ≥ 0,...,hs(a1,...,an) ≥ 0 is bounded. We call h (quadratically) archimedean if every real polynomial f, strictly positive on S(h), admits a representation f = σ0 + h1σ1 + ··· + hsσs with each σi being a sum of squares of real polynomials. If every hi is linear, the sequence h is archimedean. In general, h need not be archimedean. There exists an abstract valuation theoretic criterion for h to be archimedean. We are, however, interested in an effective procedure to decide whether h is archimedean or not. In dimension n = 2, E. Cabral has given an effective geometric procedure for this decision problem. Recently, S. Wagner has proved decidability for all dimensions using among others model theoretic tools like the Ax-Kochem-Ershov Theorem.

25/11/08 V. Astier (U. College, Dublin, Irlande)
Les groupes spéciaux reduits profinis sont des groupes spéciaux de corps
[Collaboration avec Hugo Mariano (Sao Paulo)]
Les groupes spéciaux sont une axiomatisation de la theorie algébrique des formes quadratiques. Nous prouvons qu'un groupe spécial réduit et profini est toujours le groupe spécial d'un corps. La preuve utilise un peu de théorème de compacité et pas mal de valuations.

18/11/08 D. Plaumann (U. Konstanz, Allemagne)
Denominators in sums of squares and a theorem of Roggero
Positive semidefinite polynomial functions on real affine varieties can always be expressed as sums of squares in the rational function field by Artin's solution to Hilbert's seventeenth problem. We show how Roggero's theorem on the divisor class group of a real variety can sometimes be used to control the zero locus of the denominators in a rational sum of squares. In particular, we construct examples of non-compact surfaces such that every psd function can be expressed as a sum of squares without denominators.

01/07/08 : F.-V. Kuhlmann (U. Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada)
Valuation theory and model theory of tame fields
A tame field is a henselian valued field whose absolute inertia field is algebraically closed. Every algebraically maximal field is a tame field, but not vice versa. While the maximal immediate extensions of the former are unique up to isomorphism, this is in general not the case for the latter. As a consequence, one has to work much harder to prove nice model theoretic results for tame fields. I will give a survey on the known algebraic and model theoretic results for tame fields and discuss the open questions. If time permits, I will also discuss some valuation theoretic facts that were used in the proofs of important theorems about tame fields and may have interesting applications to other questions, some of them coming from algebraic geometry.

24/06/08 : M. Marshall (U. Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada)
Strip conjecture (conjecture de la bande)
The Strip Conjecture asserts that any polynomial f(x,y) with real coefficients which is non-negative on the strip [0,1] x R is expressible as f(x,y) = s(x,y)+t(x,y)x+u(x,y)(1-x) where s(x,y), t(x,y) and u(x,y) are sums of squares of polynomials with real coefficients (or, equivalently, as f(x,y) = v(x,y)+w(x,y)x(1-x) where v(x,y) and w(x,y) are sums of squares of polynomials with real coefficients). This conjecture has been around for about eight years. Just recently I found a proof of it. I will talk about this.

20/05/08 S. Kuhlmann (U. Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada)
Positive polynomials on projective limits of real algebraic varieties
In my DDG talk on March 20th 2007, I presented some ideas of [K-P1] towards a Positivstellensatz on the fibre product of real algebraic affine varieties. In this talk, I present a further generalization (cf. [K-P2]) of these ideas towards a Positivstellensatz for a comprehensive class of projective limits of such varieties.
[K-P1] Kuhlmann, Salma - Putinar, Mihai: Positive Polynomials on Fibre Products, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Ser. 1344 (2007) 681-684
[K-P2] Kuhlmann, Salma - Putinar, Mihai: Positive Polynomials on Projective Limits of Real Algebraic Varieties, to appear in Bulletin des Sciences Mathématiques

23/10/07 M. Marshall (U Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada)
Closures of preorderings and quadratic modules in polynomial rings
Since Schmuedgen's solution of the multidimensional moment problem in 1991 there has been considerable work done trying to understand better the structure of the closure of a finitely generated preordering in the polynomial ring over the field $R$ of real numbers. I will talk about some of the results that have been obtained, and some of the open problems. (There are still many more of the latter than there are of the former.) From the point of view of analysis, and also from the point of view of polynomial optimization, one is also interested in the closure of a finitely generated quadratic module, so I will talk about this too.

03/03/07 T. Scanlon (U. of California, Berkeley, USA)
Difference equations and the André-Oort conjecture
I will explain in some detail how the model theory of difference fields may be employed to prove a fibred local version of the André-Oort conjecture, namely that if for some prime p an irreducible subvariety of a universal abelian scheme over a Shimura variety contains a dense set of p-special points (by which we mean unramified torsion points on fibres which are themselves canonical lifts at p), then that variety must be a sub-Shimura variety in the sense of Pink. The proof makes use of difference equations involving correspondences rather than merely functions. The work to be described is a couple of years old and the details may be found in my paper:
Local André-Oort conjecture for the universal abelian variety
Invent. Math. 163, No.1, 191-211 (2006)

19/06/07 F. Lucas (U. Angers)
Conjectures liées à la conjecture de Pierce-Birkhoff
Énoncés de la conjecture de Pierce-Birkhoff et de la conjecture de connexité (toute fonction réelle polynômiale par morceaux est sup-inf de polynômes). Étude d'une classe de sous-ensembles connexes du spectre réel de l'anneau de polynômes.

20/02/07 S. Kuhlmann (U. Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada)
Polynômes positifs sur des produits fibrés
(En collaboration avec Mihai Putinar)
Nous présentons une interpretation algébrique (dans le language des produits fibrés de varietées algébriques) de résultats récents de J.-B. Lasserre en théorie de l'optimisation concernant la structure de polynômes positifs (sur un sous ensemble compact et semi-algébrique K de R^n$) qui satisfont certaines conditions de séparation des variables dans leurs monômes. Ceci offre la perspective d'un traitement uniforme de tels polynômes, positifs sur $K$ non compact, on non semi-algébrique, ainsi que pour des polynômes en un nombre dénombrable de variables.

13/02/07 M. Tressl (U. Passau, Allemagne)
Elementary properties of Zariski - and real spectra
(Joint work with Niels Schwartz)
An elementary property of a Zariski spectrum here is a property P of topological spaces, such that the class of rings whose Zariski-spectrum have property P, is axiomatizable. The original goal was to decide whether the class of reduced rings with completely normal spectrum is elementary. I will characterize these rings algebraically and show that the class is not elementary. The same question will be answered for (reduced) rings with normal spectrum, inverse (completely) normal spectrum, respectively and for rings whose minimal/maximal spectra satisfy various topological properties.
The work is motivated by the open problem on the topological characterization of real spectra of rings. I will indicate some progress in this direction, too.

30/05/06 C. Rivière (U. Paris 7)
Une modèle-compagne pour la théorie des corps différentiels munis de m ordres
Nous montrerons que la théories des corps munis à la fois d'une dérivée et d'un nombre fini d'ordres admet une modèle-compagne.

09/05/06 F.-V. Kuhlmann (U. Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada)
Maps on ultrametric spaces, the implicit function theorem and differential Hensel's lemmas
We give a criterion for maps on ultrametric spaces to be surjective and to preserve spherical completeness. We show how (the multi-dimensional) Hensel's Lemma and the Implicit Function Theorem follow from our result. We will also discuss possible versions of an infinite-dimensional Implicit Function Theorem. Further, we apply the criterion to deduce various versions of Hensel's Lemma for polynomials in several additive operators, and to give a criterion for the existence of integration and solutions of certain differential equations on spherically complete differential fields, for both D-fields in the sense of Scanlon, and differentially valued fields in the sense of Rosenlicht. We modify the approach so that it also covers logarithmic-exponential power series fields.

13/12/05 F. Broglia (U. Pise, Italie)
Some remarks about the Global Analytic Nullstellensatz
In the first part I will explain the results obtained by Forster and Siu in the '60's in the complex case, namely; Let H be a Stein algebra, i.e. the algebra of global sections of the structural sheaf of a Stein space: the Nullstellensatz holds for closed primary ideals of H, any closed ideal has an irreducible decomposition into (infinitely many) primary ideals, and one can give a necessary and sufficient condition for a closed ideal to have a Nullstellensatz, in terms of the primarity multiplicity of the primary ideals in this decomposition.
For the real case, after a review of the results of De Bartolomeis and Adkins that transport to the real case the Forster's and Siu's ones, I will examinate some results giving sufficient conditions for closed ideals to have a Nullstellensatz, assuming that this holds for primary ideals. At the end, for the case of real closed ideals one will show that in dimension 3 the obstruction to solve the 17 Hilbert problem is also the obstruction to get a Nullstellensatz for real closed ideals (Paper in collaboration with Federica Pieroni)

22/11/05 D. Plaumann (U. Konstanz, Allemagne)
Bounded polynomial maps and the moment problem
Let S be a closed semialgebraic subset of R^n and let B(S) be the ring of polynomials that are bounded on S. We will show how to obtain information on B(S) (e.g. the transcendence degree) and how it can be used in the study of positive polynomials and the moment problem for S.

18/10/05 J. Ruiz (U. Complutense, Madrid, Espagne)
Representation of sums of squares of linear forms
We will discuss the problem of estimating the number of squares needed to represent any sum of squares of linear forms over a ring A. This can be used to bound the Pythagoras number of A-algebras B that are finite modules over A. When A is a field k, this was considered by Pfister in the '60s. In the '80s, Choi, Dai, Lam and Reznick looked at the case when A is a ring of polynomials k[y] in one single variable y, and settle the problem for k real closed. The only method available as far is diagonalization over k[y]. Here we will see how to use diagonalization for more general fields. Furthermore, we will see that this also solves the case when A is the ring of formal power series k[[x,y]] in two variables x,y.

25/10/05 Y. N. Moschovakis (U. California, Los Angeles, USA)
Lower bounds for co-primeness and other decision problems in arithmetic
To prove that you need at least c(a,b) additions, subtractions and divisions to compute gcd(a,b) *by any algorithm*, it is enough to show that for suitably chosen, sufficiently large a >= b >= 1, the value gcd(a,b) cannot be constructed from a and b using fewer than c(a,b) additions, subtractions and divisions; but this method does not work for the derivation of generally applicable lower bounds for deciding whether a and b are co-prime, since the answer (0 or 1) is trivial.
I will describe a methodology for obtaining such results [with c(a,b) = (1/10) log log(a), for co-primeness] and illustrate it with additional examples of both kinds from the two articles listed below. A pleasing feature of the method is that it identifies specific inputs on which every decision algorithm must "take a long time", e.g., the solutions of Pell's equations in the case of co-primeness.
[1] Lou van den Dries and Yiannis N. Moschovakis. Is the Euclidean algorithm optimal among its peers? The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, 10:390--418, 2004.
[2] Lou van den Dries and Yiannis N. Moschovakis. Arithmetic complexity. In preparation.

20/09/05 A. Khelif (IUFM Paris et Univ. Paris 7)
Idéaux maximaux d'anneaux de fonctions généralisées et compactification
Pour le calcul, les physiciens ont eu souvent recours à la multiplication de distributions. Mais ceci n'a pas de sens d'un point de vue mathématique. Pour donner un cadre rigoureux à ces calculs, Colombeau à introduit les anneaux de fonctions généralisées. Nous nous intéresserons aux « zéros » de telles « fonctions ». Nous étudierons l'ensemble des idéaux maximaux de tels anneaux, ce qui nécessitera de s'intéresser à une forme de généralisation de la compactification de Stone-Cech.
Les liens avec l'analyse non standard seront évoqués.


07/06/05 : I. Efrat (U. Ben Gurion, Israël)
Generalized Milnor K-rings, orderings, and valuations
We define the Milnor K-ring of a field F modulo a subgroup of its multiplicative group. It generalizes the classical Milnor K-ring of F and its mod m quotients. We explain how many arithmetical concepts and results on valued and ordered fields as well as on quadratic forms can be naturally interpreted in terms of this functor. The new functor also puts in a natural and more general setting many known results on the structure of the maximal pro-p Galois group of a field containing a p-th root of unity for p prime.

22/03/05 : V. Powers (U. Emory, Atlanta, USA)
A New Approach to Hilbert's Theorem on Ternary Quartics
Hilbert's Theorem on ternary quartics says that if f is a ternary quartic --a homogeneous polynomial in three variables of degree four-- and is positive semidefinite (psd), then f can be written as a sum of three squares of quadratic forms. Hilbert's proof is non-constructive, in particular, no information is given about how many different ways it can be done. In recent work with B. Reznick, C. Scheiderer, and F. Sottile, we show that if f is a smooth psd ternary quartic, then there are exactly 8 "essentially different" ways to write f as a sum of three squares of quadratic forms. The proof uses a construction of Coble for ternary quartics over the complex numbers. Results in the singular case will also be discussed.

18/01/05 : A. Nies (U. Auckland, Nouvelle Zélande)
Quasi-finitely axiomatizable groups
Under what circumstances can a finitely generated infinite group be described by a finite amount of information? One way is the following: a f.g. group $G$ is said to be quasi-finitely axiomatizable (QFA) if there is a first order sentence $\phi$ such that $G$ is, up to isomorphism, the only f.g. group satisfying $\phi$. I introduced this notion in a 2001 paper, where the goal was to measure the expressivity of first-order language for groups.
Fix a prime number $p$. Examples of QFA groups include the Baumslag-Solitar groups $\langle x,d| d^{-1}x d= x^p$, and the restricted wreath products $Z_p\wr Z$ (which are not finitely presented). However, there also is a class-3 nilpotent group which is not QFA.
In recent work, Oger and Sabbagh gave an algebraic characterization of the nilpotent QFA groups, and showed that a nilpotent group is QFA iff it is a prime model of its theory. Morozov and Nies gave examples of QFA groups with very complex word problems. Extending their logical methods, I have proved the existence of continuum many non-isomorphic f.g. prime groups. In particular, there is such a group which is not QFA.

05/10/04 : E. Hrushovski (U. Hébraïque, Jerusalem, Israel, et ENS Paris)
Imaginaries in Henselian valued fields
In [HHM], it was shown that imaginaries in algebraically closed valued fields can be reduced to elements of definable sets over the field $K$ and the residue field $k$, together with certain sorts related to the "affine Grassmanian", coding lattices over $K$. This was extended to $p$-adic fields in [HM].
We demonstrate here a similar result for valued fields admitting quantifier elimination in an appropriate language, with infinite residue fields. The imaginaries are described relative to the value group and residue field. We need a little more than the usual imaginaries of the residue field: the imaginaries of certain finite dimensional vector spaces over it come into play.
[HHM] D. Haskell, E. Hrushovski, H.D. Macpherson, Definable sets in algebraically closed valued fields. Part I: elimination of imaginaries.
[HM] E. Hrushovski, Ben Martin, preprint on $p$-adic elimination of imaginaries.


29/06/04 : M. tressl (U. Regensburg, Allemagne)
An elementary theory of real closed fields which carry all o-minimal expansions of R
We work in a first order theory called "Y-rings", which generalizes the theory of real closed rings (in the sense of Niels Schwartz) for o-minimal expansions of the real field IR.
The Y-rings K that are fields ("Y-fields") have the property that for any o-minimal expansion M of IR, there is an expansion of K to an elementary extension of IR.
The basic example of an Y-ring is the ring C(X) of continuous functions from a topological space X into IR. The basic example of an Y-field is the quotient field of C(X) at a z-prime ideal. The various o-minimal expansions on an Y-field are reflected in the ideal theory of Y-rings.

22/06/04 : J. Wilson (U. Oxford, Grande bretagne, et U. Paris 7)
Characterizations of finite soluble groups
This will be a description (mainly expository) of some of the characterizations that can now be given for finite soluble groups.The characterizations appear natural and attractive, but their proofs depend crucially on partial classification results for finite simple groups.

15/06/04 : A. Petrovich (U. Buenos Aires, Argentine, et U. Paris 7)
Fans in real spectra
We define a natural notion of "fan" ("eventail") in the class of abstract real spectra (Marshall) and study their properties and those of the real semigroups dual to them. This notion is a natural generalization of the homonymous notion for spaces of orderings. We shall exhibit examples of rings whose real spectra are fans. (Joint work with M. Dickmann.)

01/06/04 : T. Scanlon (U. of California, Berkeley, USA)
A local version of the André-Oort conjecture
We prove a $p$-adic version of a conjecture of Yves Andr\'{e}. More precisely, let $p$ be a prime number, $R$ the maximal unramified extension of ${\mathbb Z}_p$, and $n \geq 3$ a natural number prime to $p$. Fix an embedding $R \hookrightarrow {\mathbb C}$. The moduli space of principally polarized abelian varieties with full level $n$ structure ${\mathcal A} = {\mathcal A}_{g,1,n}$ is defined over ${\mathbb Z}[\frac{1}{n}]$. Let $\pi:{\mathcal X} \to {\mathcal A}$ be the universal abelian variety over ${\mathcal A}$. We say that a point $\xi \in {\mathcal X}(R)$ is $p$-special if $\xi$ is a torsion point of ${\mathcal X}_{\pi(\xi)}$ and ${\mathcal X}_{\pi(\xi)}$ is the canonical lift of its special fibre. We show that if $Y \subseteq {\mathcal X}_{\mathbb C}$ is an irreducible subvariety containing a Zariski dense set of $p$-special points, then $Y$ is a ``special'' subvariety, which in this case means essentially that with respect to the usual complex analytic uniformization of ${\mathcal X}({\mathbb C})$ that $Y({\mathbb C})$ is uniformized by a homogeneous space for a Lie group.
The proof combines the corresponding result for ${\mathcal A}$ (due to Ben Moonen) with the model theory of difference fields and valued difference fields.

25/05/04 : F.-V. Kuhlmann (U. Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada)
Classification of Artin-Schreier defect extensions, and characterizations of algebraically maximal and defectless fields
We classify Artin-Schreier extensions of valued fields with non-trivial defect according to whether they are connected with purely inseparable extensions with non-trivial defect, or not. We use this classification to show that in positive characteristic, a valued field is algebraically complete if and only if it has no proper immediate algebraic extension and every finite purely inseparable extension is defectless. This result is an important tool for the construction of algebraically complete fields. We also use the result to show that extremal fields are algebraically complete. A valued field (K,v) is called extremal if for all polynomials f in several variables the value set vf(K^n) has a maximum. Restricting this condition to certain classes of polynomials yields further interesting properties. In that way, we give characterizations of algebraically maximal and inseparably defectless fields. Finally, we give a second characterization of algebraically complete fields, in terms of their completion.
As an example by Cutkosky and Piltant shows, a certain property called relative resolution may work with one type of Artin Schreier defect extensions, but not with the other. This connection with algebraic geometry has to be investigated further.
This work was strongly inspired by the first part of Francoise Delon's thesis. Some results are generalized, some others are put in a larger perspective.

18/05/04 : L. darnière (U. Angers)
Modèle-completion pour les treillis de dimension finie
There is a wide class of lattices in which the Krull-dimension of the spectrum (that is the Stone space of prime filters) is definable in a natural way, we call it the class of scaled lattices. Boolean algebras, for example, are precisely scaled lattices of dimension zero (by which we mean scaled lattices whose spectrum has Krull-dimension zero). Our motivating example of non-zero dimensionnal scaled lattice is the lattice of all closed definable subsets of the power set $k^N$ with $k$ an algebraically closed, real closed or $p$-adically closed field. It is remarkable that the dimension of those lattices coincides with the usual geometric dimension as we will check it.
As is well known, the theory of boolean algebras admits as a model-completion the theory of dense boolean algebras. We prove that the theory of scaled lattices of arbitrary dimension N admits a model-completion and give an explicit axiomatization of it, which boils down to the usual one (density) in the zero dimensionnal case.

29/04/04 : A. Martin-Pizzarro (Humboldt U., Berlin, Allemagne)
Galois cohomology of surgical fields
In "Corps et Chirurgie" Pillay and Poizat studied fields with a primitive notion of dimension on definable sets arising generally from some ordinal-valued rank. They showed that surgical fields (that is, fields admiting such a dimension) were perfect and the absolute Galois group was small (i.e. only finitely many open subgroups for each finite index). We will study the cohomological behaviour of such fields, and in particular of algebraic groups defined over them. Some knowledge of Geometric Stability Theory and Algebraic Geometry will be assumed.

27/04/04 : F.-V. Kuhlmann (U. Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada)
Extensions of valuations to rational function fields
Classification and construction of extensions of valuations to rational function fields in one and in several variables, connection with algebraic geometry, construction of nasty extensions with defect.

09/03/04 : S. Kuhlmann (U. Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada)
Positivstellensatze et problème des moments
Le problème des moments en analyse fonctionnelle recherche la représentation (par intégrale) de fonctions linéaires sur l'anneau des polynômes. D'autre part, les "Positivstellensaetze" en géométrie algébrique réelle s'occupent de représentation de polynômes positifs, dans l' esprit du 17ème Problème de Hilbert. Ces deux problèmes de représentation sont intimement liés, et Schmuedgen montre en 1991 que le problème des moments est toujours résoluble, si le support de la mesure est un ensemble semi-algébrique COMPACT. Plusieures généralisations au cas NON-COMPACT ont été faites depuis (Powers-Scheiderer, Kuhlmann-Marshall-Schwartz).
Dans cet exposé, nous ferons un survol historique rapide, pour ensuite présenter les resultats nouveaux.

16/12/03 : M. Kotchetov (U. Carleton, Ottawa, Canada)
Orderability of Hopf algebras
We start by recalling the definition of a Hopf algebra. The simplest examples are group algebras and universal enveloping algebras. In fact, every cocommutative Hopf algebra over an algebraically closed field K of characteristic zero is a smash product of the form U(L)#KG, where U(L) is the universal enveloping algebra of some Lie algebra L and KG is the group algebra of some group G. We will give necessary and sufficient conditions for such a smash product to be orderable in the case when K is the field of reals and dim L is finite. Then we turn to the so called *-orderings on rings with involution. The existence of *-orderings on U(L) was proved by M. Marshall in his recent paper. It turns out that the problem of existence of a *-ordering on KG is more difficult. We discuss some partial results in this direction. Finally, we will state necessary and sufficient conditions for the smash product U(L)#KG to have a *-ordering in the case when K is the field of complex numbers and dim L is finite (modulo the problem of *-orderability of KG).


04/02/03 : D. Haskell (U. McMaster, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada)
L'élimination des imaginaires dans les corps algébriquement clos valués (I)
Une esquisse de la démonstration ; les sortes précises - les modules et leurs cossettes ; les ensembles unaires et la notion de générique ; les noyaux des fonctions.


15/05/01 : J. Koenigsmann (U. Konstanz, Allemagne)
Encoding valuations in absolute Galois group
The talk provides an Artin-Schreier theory for valued fields: mutatis mutandis, valuations on any field F are encoded in the absolute Galois group of F, just like orderings. This comprises and generalizes the many partial results obtained in special cases since the early 70`s. (matured version of the talk I gave on the valuation theory conference in Saskatoon)


22/06/00 : M. Marshall (U. Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada)
Recent developments in semi-algebraic geometry arising from Schmuedgen's solution of the K-Moment Problem
Schmuedgen's solution of the K-Moment Problem (1991) makes essential use of Stengle's Positivstellensatz, but otherwise Schmuedgen's methods are functional-analytic. Recently, a purely algebraic proof has been discovered by Woermann, based on the Kadison-Dubois Theorem. Also, in the last 10 years, Schmuedgen's original result has been strengthened and extended in various ways. The related question of Putinar on when linear representations are possible was solved (in some sense, at least), in 1999, by Jacobi and Prestel, using the local-global principle for weak isotropy of quadratic forms. The Kadison-Dubois Theorem has been extended, first by Jacobi and then again later, by myself. The combined work of Jacobi and Woermann extends everything to from level 1 to general odd level. A non-compact version of Schmuedgen's result has been proved by myself, although the application of this to the Moment Problem is still unclear, and more work needs to be done here. The talk will concentrate on all these various developments in the last 10 years, and will be designed for a general audience.

20/06/00 : S. Kuhlmann (U. Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada)
A maximality property of the Hardy field H(Ranpowers)
Résumé en anglais au format dvi

16/11/99 : E. Jaligot (U. lyon 1)
Quelques configurations de petits groupes simples de rang de Morley fini
Selon la conjecture de Cherlin-Zil'ber, un groupe simple infini de rang de Morley fini devrait être algébrique. Au regard d'une théorie des 2-Sylow valide dans ce contexte, Borovik a élaboré un programme de classification (s'inspirant de la classification des groupes simples fini !) pour les groupes ordinaires, les « tame groups ». Je parlerai de ce qui peut être fait sans cette hypothèse, notamment sur certaines configurations de « petits » groupes.


22/06/99 : C. Holland (U. Bowling Green, USA, et U. du Mans)
Equational classes of automorphism groups of ordered structures
By a variety of groups, we mean the class of all groups satisfying a given set of (universally quantified) equations. If T is a totally ordered set and A(T) is the group of all automorphisms of T, then the variety of groups generated by A(T) can only be the variety of all groups or one of the solvable varieties. For each solvable variety Sn, we will describe the structure of the set T and of the group A(T) if A(T) generates Sn. We will also consider the question of solvability of equations in A(T).


28/04/98 : L. Darnière (U. Rennes 1)
Anneaux PAC, PRC ou PpC
Les corps PAC, PRC ou PpC sont bien connus des theoriciens des modeles. Il s'agit de corps satisfaisant un principe local-global semblable au principe de Hasse, relativement à des « clôtures » (la clôture algébrique pour les corps PAC, les clôtures réelles/p-adiques pour les PRC/PpC).
L'objet de l'exposé est de présenter une généralisation de cette notion au cas des anneaux intègres, à l'aide d'un principe local-global de même nature. On obtient ainsi des critères d'équivalence élémentaire, de plongement élémentaire ou existentiellement clos comparables à ceux des corps PAC/PRC/PPC, et des résultats de décidabilité pour diverses extensions entières de l'anneau des entiers relatifs.

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