Wed, 16 Jun 2021

16:30 - 18:00

Some recent results on Structural Reflection

Joan Bagaria
(ICREA and University of Barcelona)
Abstract

The general Structural Reflection (SR) principle asserts that for every definable, in the first-order language of set theory, possibly with parameters, class $\mathcal{C}$ of relational structures of the same type there exists an ordinal $\alpha$ that reflects $\mathcal{C}$, i.e.,  for every $A$ in $\mathcal{C}$ there exists $B$ in $\mathcal{C}\cap V_\alpha$ and an elementary embedding from $B$ into $A$. In this form, SR is equivalent to Vopenka’s Principle (VP). In my talk I will present some different natural variants of SR which are equivalent to the existence some well-known large cardinals weaker than VP. I will also consider some forms of SR, reminiscent of Chang’s Conjecture, which imply the existence of large cardinal principles stronger than VP, at the level of rank-into-rank embeddings and beyond. The latter is a joint work with Philipp Lücke.

Wed, 26 May 2021

16:30 - 18:00

The strength of determinacy when all sets are universally Baire

Sandra Müller
(TU Wien and University of Vienna)
Abstract

The large cardinal strength of the Axiom of Determinacy when enhanced with the hypothesis that all sets of reals are universally Baire is known to be much stronger than the Axiom of Determinacy itself. In fact, Sargsyan conjectured it to be as strong as the existence of a cardinal that is both a limit of Woodin cardinals and a limit of strong cardinals. Larson, Sargsyan and Wilson showed that this would be optimal via a generalization of Woodin's derived model construction. We will discuss a new translation procedure for hybrid mice extending work of Steel, Zhu and Sargsyan and use this to prove Sargsyan's conjecture.

Thu, 17 Jun 2021

14:00 - 15:00
Virtual

Wilson Loops, Cusps and Holography

Pietro Ferrero
(Mathematical Institute (University of Oxford))
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Thu, 10 Jun 2021

14:00 - 15:00
Virtual

Random Matrices and JT Gravity

Carmen Jorge-Diaz
(Mathematical Institute (University of Oxford))
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Thu, 03 Jun 2021

14:00 - 15:00
Virtual

Topological QFTs (Part II)

Marieke Van Beest and Sujay Nair
(Mathematical Institute (University of Oxford))
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Thu, 27 May 2021

14:00 - 15:00
Virtual

Topological QFTs (Part I)

Marieke Van Beest and Sujay Nair
(Mathematical Institute (University of Oxford))
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Thu, 20 May 2021

14:00 - 15:00
Virtual

Invariants of 4-Manifolds

Horia Magureanu
(Mathematical Institute (University of Oxford))
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Thu, 06 May 2021

14:00 - 15:00
Virtual

Constructor Theory

Maria Violaris
(Mathematical Institute (University of Oxford))
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Fri, 04 Jun 2021
11:30
Virtual

Interpretable fields in certain expansions of valued fields

Kobi Peterzil
(University of Haifa)
Abstract

(Joint with Y. Halevi and A. Hasson.) We consider two kinds of expansions of a valued field $K$:

(1) A $T$-convex expansion of real closed field, for $T$ a polynomially bounded o-minimal expansion of $K$.

(2) A $P$-minimal field $K$ in which definable functions are PW differentiable.

We prove that any interpretable infinite field $F$ in $K$ is definably isomorphic to a finite extension of either $K$ or, in case (1), its residue field $k$. The method we use bypasses general elimination of imaginaries and is based on analysis of one dimensional quotients of the form $I=K/E$ inside $F$ and their connection to one of 4 possible sorts: $K$, $k$ (in case (1)), the value group, or the quotient of $K$ by its valuation ring. The last two cases turn out to be impossible and in the first two cases we use local differentiability to embed $F$ into the matrix ring over $K$ (or $k$).

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