Seminar series
Date
Thu, 20 Nov 2025
17:00
Location
L3
Speaker
Stefan Ludwig
Organisation
Universitat Freiburg

What is the common theory of all finite fields equipped with an additive and/or multiplicative character? Hrushovski answered this question in the additive case working in (a mild version of) continuous logic. Motivated by natural number-theoretic examples we generalise his results to the case allowing for both (non-trivial) additive character and (sufficiently generic) multiplicative character. Apart from answering the above question we obtain a quantifier elimination result and a generalisation of the definability of the Chatzidakis-Macintyre-van den Dries counting measure to this context. The proof relies on classical results on bounds of character sums following from the work of Weil.

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