Special transformations in algebraically closed valued fields

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Abstract: We present two of the three major steps in the construction of motivic integration, that is, a homomorphism between Grothendieck semigroups that are associated with a first-order theory of algebraically closed valued fields, in the fundamental work of Hrushovski and Kazhdan. We limit our attention to a simple major subclass of V-minimal theories of the form ACVF_S(0, 0), that is, the theory of algebraically closed valued fields of pure characteristic 0 expanded by a (VF, Gamma)-generated substructure S in the language L_RV. The main advantage of this subclass is the presence of syntax. It enables us to simplify the arguments with many different technical details while following the major steps of the Hrushovski-Kazhdan theory.


This is the first in a series of papers in which the author aims to rewrite and work out the Hrushovski-Kazhdan theory of motivic integration in a restricted setting. The basic idea of motivic integration in local fields is to compute the Haar measure of a set in a way that is independent of the underlying field. For this one assigns to each first-order formula a ``measure, typically an element of a Grothendieck ring of varieties, which then specializes to the Haar measure of the set defined by that formula in (almost) all of those local fields. A very abstract form of this, for so-called V-minimal expansions of the theory of algebraically closed valued fields, is introduced in [\textit{E.~Hrushovski} and \textit{D.~Kazhdan}, ``Integration in valued fields, in: V. Ginzburg (ed.), Algebraic geometry and number theory. Basel: Birkhäuser. Progress in Mathematics 253, 261--405 (2006; Zbl 1136.03025)]. Yin specializes this to the theory \(\text{ACVF}_S(0,0)\) of algebraically closed valued fields of pure characteristic zero in the Basarab-Kuhlmann-style two-sorted language \(\mathcal{L}_{\text{RV}}\) with valued field sort \(\text{VF}\) and residue multiplicative structure sort \(\text{RV}\) (where \(\text{RV}(K)=K^\times/(1+\mathfrak{m}_K)\)), expanded by constants from a substructure \(S\) which is generated by elements from \(\text{VF}\) and the imaginary value group sort \(\Gamma\). The motivic measure in this integration theory takes the form of a canonical isomorphism \(\mathbb{K}_+\text{VF}_\ast[\cdot]\rightarrow\mathbb{K}_+\text{RV}[\ast,\cdot]/\text{I}_{\text{sp}}\) between the Grothendieck semigroup of the category of definable sets \(\text{VF}_\ast[\cdot]\) associated with the \(\text{VF}\)-sort and the Grothendieck semigroup of the category of definable sets \(\text{RV}[\ast,\cdot]\) associated with the \(\text{RV}\)-sort modulo a semigroup congruence relation \(\text{I}_{\text{sp}}\). The present paper presents two of the three steps of the construction of this isomorphism. Namely, a lifting \(\mathbb{L}\) from \(\text{RV}[\ast,\cdot]\) to \(\text{VF}_\ast[\cdot]\) is constructed which is proven to be surjective. More precisely, the author shows that every object of \(\text{VF}_\ast[\cdot]\) is in definable bijection with an element in the image of \(\mathbb{L}\) via one of the so-called special transformations occurring in the title of the paper. It is then proven that \(\mathbb{L}\) induces a homomorphism \(\mathbb{K}_+\text{RV}[\ast,\cdot]\rightarrow\mathbb{K}_+\text{VF}_\ast[\cdot]\). The third step of the construction, the identification of the kernel of this homomorphism, is presented in the sequel [\textit{Y.~Yin}, ``Integration in algebraically closed valued fields, Ann. Pure Appl. Logic 162, No. 5, 384--408 (2011; Zbl 1225.03042)].











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