A CHARACTERIZATION THEOREM FOR COMPUTABLE ORDERED FIELDS.

Abstract

M. Rabin has characterized the computable groups as those which have a solvable word problem. The purpose of this paper is to establish a characterization theorem for the computable ordered fields. The main result is that an ordered field T is computable if and only if there is a finite sequence alpha sub 1,..., alpha sub n epsilon T algebraically independent over the rationals Q such that Q(alpha sub 1,..., alpha sub n)=T sub 1 is computable ordered and T is strongly recursively enumerable over Q. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1969
Accession Number
AD0697660

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  • Eugene W. Madison

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  • University of Iowa

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  • Automata
  • Mathematics
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  • Mathematics

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