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Léo Jimenez

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arXiv2026

Internality of autonomous algebraic differential equations

This article is interested in internality to the constants of systems of autonomous algebraic ordinary differential equations. Roughly, this means determining when can all solutions of such a system be written as a rational function of finitely many fixed solutions (and their derivatives) and finitely many constants. If the system is a single order one equation, the answer was given in an old article of Rosenlicht. In the present work, we completely answer this question for a large class of systems. As a corollary, we obtain a necessary condition for the generic solution to be Liouvillian. We then apply these results to determine exactly when solutions to Poizat equations (a special case of Liénard equations) are internal, answering a question of Freitag, Jaoui, Marker and Nagloo, and to the classic Lotka-Volterra system, showing that its generic solutions are almost never Liouvillian.

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arXiv2026

Algebraic independence of solutions to multiple Lotka-Volterra systems

Consider some non-zero complex numbers $a_i, b_i, c_i, d_i$ with $1 \leq i \leq n$ and the associated classical Lotka-Volterra systems \[ \begin{cases} x' = a_i xy + b_i x \newline y' = c_i xy + d_i y \text{ .} \end{cases} \] We show that as long as $b_i \neq d_i$ for all $i$ and $\{ b_i, d_i\} \neq \{ b_j, d_j\}$ for $i \neq j$, any tuples $(x_1,y_1) , \cdots , (x_m,y_m)$ of pairwise distinct, non-degenerate solutions of these systems are algebraically independent over $\mathbb{C}$, meaning $\mathrm{trdeg}((x_1,y_1) , \cdots , (x_m,y_m)/\mathbb{C}) = 2m$. Our proof relies on extending recent work of Duan and Nagloo by showing strong minimality of these systems, as long as $b_i \neq d_i$. We also generalize a theorem of Brestovski which allows us to control algebraic relations using invariant volume forms. Finally, we completely classify all invariant algebraic curves in the non-strongly minimal, $b_i = d_i$ case by using machinery from geometric stability theory.

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arXiv2026

Special classes of functions

Using model theory and differential algebra, we give necessary conditions for algebraic ordinary differential equations to have a complex Pfaffian solution on some complex domain. These tools also allow us to give many examples of algebraic ordinary differential equations that do not have real Pfaffian solution on any open interval. We also give a sufficient condition for a function to be d-irreducible, in the sense of Nishioka. These characterizations are used to give several answers to questions of Bianconi (2016) and strengthen a theorem of Nguyen (2009).

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arXiv2025

Domination, fibrations and splitting

This article is concerned with finite rank stability theory, and more precisely two classical ways to decompose a type using minimal types. The first is its domination equivalence to a Morley power of minimal types, and the second its semi-minimal analysis, both of which are useful in applications. Our main interest is to explore how these two decompositions are connected. We prove that neither determine the other in general, and give more precise connections using various notions from the model theory literature such as uniform internality, proper fibrations and disintegratedness.

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arXiv2025

Splitting differential equations using Galois theory

This article is interested in pullbacks under the logarithmic derivative of algebraic ordinary differential equations. In particular, assuming the solution set of an equation is internal to the constants, we would like to determine when its pullback is itself internal to the constants. To do so, we develop, using model-theoretic Galois theory and differential algebra, a connection between internality of the pullback and the splitting of a short exact sequence of algebraic Galois groups. We then use algebraic group theory to obtain internality and non-internality results.

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arXiv2024

Finite-dimensional differential-algebraic permutation groups

Several structural results about permutation groups of finite rank definable in differentially closed fields of characteristic zero (and other similar theories) are obtained. In particular, it is shown that every finite rank definably primitive permutation group is definably isomorphic to an algebraic permutation group living in the constants. Applications include the verification, in differentially closed fields, of the finite Morley rank permutation group conjectures of Borovik-Deloro and Borovik-Cherlin. Applying the results to binding groups for internality to the constants, it is deduced that if complete types $p$ and $q$ are of rank $m$ and $n$, respectively, and are nonorthogonal, then the $(m+3)$rd Morley power of $p$ is not weakly orthogonal to the $(n+3)$rd Morley power of $q$. An application to transcendence of generic solutions of pairs of algebraic differential equations is given.

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arXiv2024

Note on a differential algebra bound

In a recent article, Freitag, Moosa and the author showed that in differentially closed fields of characteristic zero, if two types are nonorthogonal, then their n+3 and m+3 Morley powers are not weakly orthogonal, where n and m are their respective Lascar ranks. In this short note, we prove that the bound is tight: there are such types with weakly orthogonal n+2 and m+2 Morley powers. The types in question were constructed by Freitag and Moosa as examples of types with degree of nonminimality 2. As interesting as our result are our methods: we rely mostly on Galois theory and some descent argument for types, combined with the failure of the inverse Galois problem over constant parameters.

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arXiv2023

Enriching a predicate and tame expansions of the integers

Given a structure $\mathcal{M}$ and a stably embedded $\emptyset$-definable set $Q$, we prove tameness preservation results when enriching the induced structure on $Q$ by some further structure $\mathcal{Q}$. In particular, we show that if $T=\text{Th}(\mathcal{M})$ and $\text{Th}(\mathcal{Q})$ are stable (resp., superstable, $ω$-stable), then so is the theory $T[\mathcal{Q}]$ of the enrichment of $\mathcal{M}$ by $\mathcal{Q}$. Assuming simplicity of $T$, elimination of hyperimaginaries and a further condition on $Q$ related to the behavior of algebraic closure, we also show that simplicity and NSOP$_1$ pass from $\text{Th}(\mathcal{Q})$ to $T[\mathcal{Q}]$. We then prove several applications for tame expansions of weakly minimal structures and, in particular, the group of integers. For example, we construct the first known examples of strictly stable expansions of $(\mathbb{Z},+)$. More generally, we show that any stable (resp., superstable, simple, NIP, NTP$_2$, NSOP$_1$) countable graph can be defined in a stable (resp., superstable, simple, NIP, NTP$_2$, NSOP$_1$) expansion of $(\mathbb{Z},+)$ by some unary predicate $A\subseteq\mathbb{N}$.

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arXiv2021

CM-trivial structures without the canonical base property

Based on Hrushovski, Palac{í}n and Pillay's example [6], we produce a new structure without the canonical base property, which is interpretable in Baudisch's group. Said structure is, in particular, CM-trivial, and thus at the lowest possible level of the ample hierarchy.

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arXiv2020

Relative internality and definable fibrations

We first elaborate on the theory of relative internality in stable theories, focusing on the notion of uniform relative internality (called collapse of the groupoid in an earlier work of the second author), and relating it to orthogonality, triviality of fibrations, the strong canonical base property, differential Galois theory, and GAGA. We prove that $\mathrm{DCF}_0$ does not have the strong canonical base property, correcting an earlier proof. We also prove that the theory $\mathrm{CCM}$ of compact complex manifolds does not have the strong CBP, and initiate a study of the definable Galois theory of projective bundles. In the rest of the paper we study definable fibrations in $\mathrm{DCF}_0$, where the general fibre is internal to the constants, including differential tangent bundles, and geometric linearizations. We obtain new examples of higher rank types orthogonal to the constants.

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arXiv2019

Groupoids and Relative Internality

In a stable theory, a stationary type $q \in S(A)$ internal to a family of partial types $\mathcal{P}$ over $A$ gives rise to a type-definable group, called its binding group. This group is isomorphic to the group $\mathrm{Aut}(q/\mathcal{P},A)$ of permutations of the set of realizations of $q$, induced by automorphisms of the monster model, fixing $\mathcal{P} \cup A$ pointwise. In this paper, we investigate families of internal types varying uniformly, what we will call relative internality. We prove that the binding groups also vary uniformly, and are the isotropy groups of a natural type-definable groupoid (and even more). We then investigate how properties of this groupoid are related to properties of the type. In particular, we obtain internality criteria for certain 2-analysable types, and a sufficient condition for a type to preserve internality.

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