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A Schanuel condition for Weierstrass equations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Jonathan Kirby*
Affiliation:
Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, 24-29 St Giles', Oxford, OX1 3LB., UK, E-mail: [email protected], URL: http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/~kirby

Abstract

I prove a version of Schanuel's conjecture for Weierstrass equations in differential fields, answering a question of Zilber, and show that the linear independence condition in the statement cannot be relaxed.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2005

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