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Publications and source records attributed to Piotr Kowalski.
We consider the Kolchin-generic complete $1$-type of the inviscid Burgers equation $Dx=x\partial x$ in a differentially closed field of characteristic zero with two commuting derivations. We prove that this type has Lascar rank $1$ and Morley rank $ω$.
We show that generic automorphisms of stable groups are supertight in a strong sense. In particular, we obtain the existence of supertight automorphisms. We also answer a question concerning the relationship between supertight automorphisms of $\mathrm{PGL}_2(K)$ and generic automorphisms of the underlying field $K$. Moreover, we provide partial evidence-already suggested by Hrushovski-toward the principle that ``fixed points are pseudofinite'' in the setting of generic automorphisms of simple groups of finite Morley rank.
We show that a field $K$ is model complete (in the language of rings) if and only if the Heisenberg group $H(K)$ is model complete (in the language of groups). To show that, we extend Levchuk's result about automorphisms of $H(K)$ to the case of monomorphisms $H(K)\to H(M)$. We also show that $H(K)$ does not have quantifier elimination and discuss its (non-)bi-interpretability with $K$.
We provide a differential-algebraic description of forking independence in the stable theory DCF$_{p,m}$ of differentially closed fields of characteristic $p>0$ with $m$-many commuting derivations. As a by-product of this description, we prove that types over algebraically closed subsets of the real sort are stationary. In addition, we prove that the set of non-zero solutions to the Bernoulli differential equation $x'=x^{p^k+1}$ with $k>0$ is strongly minimal and its geometry is strictly disintegrated, which implies that this set is algebraically independent over $\mathbb{F}_p$.
This expository paper is written in celebration of Boris Zilber's 75th birthday. We discuss Ax-Schanuel type statements focusing on the case of positive characteristic.
We show that if G is a split semisimple algebraic group over a model complete field K, then the groups G(K) and G(K)' (the commutator group which is a ``Chevalley group'' as for example the group PSL_2(K)) are model complete as well.
We show that the class of Krasner hyperfields is not elementary. To show this, we determine the rational rank of quotients of multiplicative groups in field extensions. Our argument uses Chebotarev's density theorem. We also discuss some related questions.
There is an irreparable error in the proof of Theorem 3.26 in our "Model Theory of Fields with Virtually Free Group Actions" paper and we withdraw the claim of having proved that theorem. In fact, that theorem is false in a very strong sense.
We study model theory of actions of finite groups on substructures of a stable structure. We give an abstract description of existentially closed actions as above in terms of invariants and PAC structures. We show that if the corresponding PAC property is first order, then the theory of such actions has a model companion. Then, we analyze some particular theories of interest (mostly various theories of fields of positive characteristic) and show that in all the cases considered the PAC property is first order.
We show that if $G$ is a finitely generated group such that its profinite completion $\widehat{G}$ is ``far from being projective'' (that is the kernel of the universal Frattini cover of $\widehat{G}$ is not a small profinite group), then the class of existentially closed $G$-actions on fields is not elementary. Since any infinite, finitely generated, virtually free, and not free group is ``far from being projective'', the main result of this paper corrects an error in our paper ``Model theory of fields with virtually free group actions'', Proc. London Math. Soc., (2) 118 (2019), 221--256 by showing the negation of Theorem 3.26 in that paper.
We show that the theory of Galois actions of a torsion Abelian group $A$ is companionable if and only if for each prime $p$, the $p$-primary part of $A$ is either finite or it coincides with the Prüfer $p$-group. We also provide a model-theoretic description of the model companions we obtain.
We introduce the notion of a coordinate $\mathbf{k}$-algebra scheme and the corresponding notion of a $\mathcal{B}$-operator. This class of operators includes endomorphisms and derivations of the Frobenius map, and it also generalizes the operators related to $\mathcal{D}$-rings from [15]. We classify the (coordinate) $\mathbf{k}$-algebra schemes for a perfect field $\mathbf{k}$ and we also discuss the model-theoretic properties of fields with $\mathcal{B}$-operators.
We develop sheaf theory in the context of difference algebraic geometry. We introduce categories of difference sheaves and develop the appropriate cohomology theories. As specializations, we get difference Galois cohomology, difference Picard group and a good theory of difference torsors.
We study model theory of fields with actions of a fixed finite group scheme. We prove the existence and simplicity of a model companion of the theory of such actions, which generalizes our previous results about truncated iterative Hasse-Schmidt derivations and about Galois actions. As an application of our methods, we obtain a new model complete theory of actions of a finite group on fields of finite imperfection degree.
We give algebraic conditions about a finite algebra $B$ over a perfect field of positive characteristic, which are equivalent to the companionability of the theory of fields with "$B$-operators" (i.e. the operators coming from homomorphisms into tensor products with $B$). We show that, in the most interesting case of a local $B$, these model companions admit quantifier elimination in the "smallest possible" language and they are strictly stable. We also describe the forking relation there.
We give some basics about homological algebra of difference representations. We consider both the difference-discrete and the difference-rational case. We define the corresponding cohomology theories and show the existence of spectral sequences relating these cohomology theories with the standard ones.
We study algebraic and model-theoretic properties of existentially closed fields with an action of a fixed finite group. Such fields turn out to be pseudo-algebraically closed in a rather strong sense. We place this work in a more general context of the model theory of fields with a (finite) group scheme action.
We prove a positive characteristic version of Ax's theorem on the intersection of an algebraic subvariety and an analytic subgroup of an algebraic group. Our result is stated in a more general context of a formal map between an algebraic variety and an algebraic group. We derive transcendence results of Ax-Schanuel type.