Surreal ordered exponential fields

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Abstract: In [26], the algebraico-tree-theoretic simplicity hierarchical structure of J. H. Conway's ordered field mathbfNo of surreal numbers was brought to the fore and employed to provide necessary and sufficient conditions for an ordered field (ordered K-vector space) to be isomorphic to an initial subfield (K-subspace) of mathbfNo, i.e. a subfield (K-subspace) of mathbfNo that is an initial subtree of mathbfNo. In this sequel to [15], piggybacking on the just-said results, analogous results are established for ordered exponential fields, making use of a slight generalization of Schmeling's conception of a transseries field. It is further shown that a wide range of ordered exponential fields are isomorphic to initial exponential subfields of (mathbfNo,exp). These include all models of T(mathbbRW,ex), where mathbbRW is the reals expanded by a convergent Weierstrass system W. Of these, those we call trigonometric-exponential fields are given particular attention. It is shown that the exponential functions on the initial trigonometric-exponential subfields of mathbfNo, which includes mathbfNo itself, extend to canonical exponential functions on their surcomplex counterparts. The image of the canonical map of the ordered exponential field mathbbTLE of logarithmic-exponential transseries into mathbfNo is shown to be initial, as are the ordered exponential fields mathbbR((omega))EL and mathbbRlanglelangleomegaangleangle.




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