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A COMPUTABLE FUNCTOR FROM GRAPHS TO FIELDS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2018

RUSSELL MILLER
Affiliation:
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS QUEENS COLLEGE 65-30 KISSENA BLVD. QUEENS, NY 11367, USA and PH.D. PROGRAMS IN MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE CUNY GRADUATE CENTER 365 FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK, NY 10016, USA E-mail: russell.Miller@qc.cuny.edu URL: http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/∼rmiller
BJORN POONEN
Affiliation:
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY CAMBRIDGE, MA 02139-4307, USA E-mail: poonen@math.mit.edu URL: http://math.mit.edu/∼poonen
HANS SCHOUTENS
Affiliation:
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS NEW YORK CITY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY 300 JAY STREET BROOKLYN, NY 11201, USA and PH.D. PROGRAM IN MATHEMATICS CUNY GRADUATE CENTER 365 FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK, NY 10016, USA E-mail: hschoutens@citytech.cuny.edu
ALEXANDRA SHLAPENTOKH
Affiliation:
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY GREENVILLE, NC 27858, USA E-mail: shlapentokha@ecu.edu URL: http://myweb.ecu.edu/shlapentokha/
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Fried and Kollár constructed a fully faithful functor from the category of graphs to the category of fields. We give a new construction of such a functor and use it to resolve a longstanding open problem in computable model theory, by showing that for every nontrivial countable structure ${\cal S}$, there exists a countable field ${\cal F}$ of arbitrary characteristic with the same essential computable-model-theoretic properties as ${\cal S}$. Along the way, we develop a new “computable category theory”, and prove that our functor and its partially defined inverse (restricted to the categories of countable graphs and countable fields) are computable functors.

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