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On Archimedean Decompositions of Linearly Ordered Fields

Tristan Tager
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In 1907, Hans Hahn proved the remarkable fact that any ordered group can be embedded in an ordered real function space. This set the stage for work on ordered groups and fields, and this area received valuable contributions from Levi-Civita and many others. In this paper we show how Hahn's method of generating ordered fields from a base field and an ordered group actually characterizes all complete ordered fields. We develop refinements of Hahn's techniques, show that they are functorial in nature, and develop a new invariant of an ordered field to prove that the decomposition of a complete field into a base field and a "group of exponents" can itself further decompose, uniquely, into a field combined with an arbitrary number of groups, all of which are ordered and Archimedean.

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Tristan Tager. 2015-11-16. On Archimedean Decompositions of Linearly Ordered Fields. https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.3873

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