Some Model Theory for Complex Analytic Functions
Speaker:
Alex Wilkie, University of Oxford
Date and Time:
Friday, June 26, 2009 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Location:
Fields Institute, Room 230
Abstract:
We consider complex analytic functions that are locally definable in a polynomially bounded o-minimal structure (for example any polynomial in z, exp(z)). This restriction seems to place quite severe constraints on the analytic sets defined by such functions and provides a way in to Zilber's conjecture, ie if a subset of the set of complex numbers is first order definable in the complex exponential field then it is either countable or co-countable.