Orderings and valuations on twisted polynomial rings (Q4500824)

As is well known, the real spectrum of a commutative ring \(A\) plays an important role in real algebraic geometry. In particular, results of Bröcker and Scheiderer's show the structure of the residue spaces of \(\text{Sper}(\mathbb{R}[x_1,\dots,x_n])\) to reflect basic properties of semialgebraic sets in \(\mathbb{R}^n\). Previous work of the authors showed that many results of \(\text{Sper}(A)\) generalize to the noncommutative case, but, as the authors point out ``only a few examples are given''. In the present paper, the authors remedy this by carefully studying orderings and valuations on certain twisted polynomial algebras over \(\mathbb{R}\), including Weyl algebras and universal enveloping algebras of solvable Lie algebras. In particular, it is shown that the Bröcker-Scheiderer theory of minimal generation of constructible sets referred to above may be extended to these cases.