Introduction to o-minimality
Speaker:
Starchenko Sergei, University of Notre Dame
Date and Time:
Thursday, January 15, 2009 - 10:00am to 11:00am
Location:
Fields Institute, Room 230
Abstract:
In these 4 lectures I intend to cover the following subjects.
I. Basics of o-minimality
(1) Monotonicity Theorem
(2) Cell decomposition
(3) Consequences of Cell decomposition.
II. More advanced properties
(1) Triangulation and Euler Characteristic
(2) Piecewise smoothness
III. Hardy Fields, valuations and elementary extensions
(1.) Hardy fields, valuations and elementary extensions
(2.) Growth Dichotomy
(3.) Hausdorff Limits
(4.) Real closed valued fields
(5.) T-convexity
(6.) Bieri-Groves Theorem