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arxiv: 1601.02957 · v2 · pith:API3WZICnew · submitted 2016-01-12 · 🧮 math.LO

Model theory and geometry of representations of rings of integers

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The aim of this project is to attach a geometric structure to the ring of integers. It is generally assumed that the spectrum $\mathrm{Spec}(\mathbb{Z})$ defined by Grothendieck serves this purpose. However, it is still not clear what geometry this object carries. A.Connes and C.Consani published recently an important paper which introduces a much more complex structure called {\em the arithmetic site} which includes $\mathrm{Spec}(\mathbb{Z}).$ Our approach is based on the generalisation of constructions applied by the first author for similar purposes in non-commutative (and commutative) algebraic geometry. The current version is quite basic. We describe a category of certain representations of integral extensions of $\Z$ and establish its tight connection with the space of elementary theories of pseudo-finite fields. From model-theoretic point of view the category of representations is a multisorted structure which we prove to be superstable with pregeometry of trivial type. It comes as some surprise that a structure like this can code a rich mathematics of pseudo-finite fields.

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