Symmetry (Jan 2023)

Bi-Condition of Existence for a Compatible Directed Order on an Arbitrary Field

  • Niels Schwartz,
  • YiChuan Yang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/sym15010215
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 15, no. 1
p. 215

Abstract

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One proves that a field carries a compatible directed order if and only if it has characteristic 0 and is real or has a transcendence degree of at least 1 over the field of rational numbers.

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