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arxiv: 1507.00548 · v2 · pith:KAVA7J3Xnew · submitted 2015-07-02 · 🧮 math.RA · cs.LO

A negative result on algebraic specifications of the meadow of rational numbers

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keywords numbersrationalaxiomscdotsmathbbmeadowalgebraicaugmented
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$\mathbb{Q}_0$ - the involutive meadow of the rational numbers - is the field of the rational numbers where the multiplicative inverse operation is made total by imposing $0^{-1}=0$. In this note, we prove that $\mathbb{Q}_0$ cannot be specified by the usual axioms for meadows augmented by a finite set of axioms of the form $(1+ \cdots +1+x^2)\cdot (1+ \cdots +1 +x^2)^{-1}=1$.

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