Seminar series
Date
Thu, 06 Nov 2025
17:00
17:00
Location
L3
Speaker
Vincenzo Mantova
Organisation
University of Leeds
Transseries generalise power series by including exponential and logarithmic
terms, if not more, and can be interpreted as germs of a non-standard Hardy
field by composition (for instance, on surreal numbers). I'll discuss a few
results that must 'obviously' be true, yet their proofs are not obvious: that
composition is monotonic in both arguments, once claimed but not proved by
Edgar for LE-series, that it satisfies a suitable Taylor theorem and that in
fact composition is 'analytic with large radius of convergence' (joint with V.
Bagayoko), something which appeared before in various special forms, but not
in full generality. I'll show how monotonicity and Taylor can be used to prove
some fairly general normalisation results for hyperbolic transseries (joint
with D. Peran, J.-P. Rolin, T. Servi).