Integration on the Surreals
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| author | Costin, Ovidiu Ehrlich, Philip |
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| contents | Conway's real closed field $\mathbf{No}$ of surreal numbers is a sweeping generalization of the real numbers and the ordinals to which a number of elementary functions such as log and exponentiation have been shown to extend. The problems of identifying significant classes of functions that can be so extended and of defining integration for them have proven to be formidable. In this paper we address this and related unresolved issues by showing that extensions to $\mathbf{No}$, and thereby integrals, exist for most functions arising in practical applications. In particular, we show they exist for a large subclass of the \emph{resurgent functions}, a subclass that contains the functions that at $\infty$ are semi-algebraic, semi-analytic, analytic, meromorphic, and Borel summable as well as solutions to nonresonant linear and nonlinear meromorphic systems of ODEs or of difference equations. By suitable changes of variables we deal with arbitrarily located singular points. We further establish a sufficient condition for the theory to carry over to ordered exponential subfields of $\mathbf{No}$ more generally and illustrate the result with structures familiar from the surreal literature. The extensions of functions and integrals that concern us are constructive in nature, which permits us to work in NBG less the Axiom of Choice (for both sets and proper classes). Following the completion of the positive portion of the paper, it is shown that the existence of such constructive extensions and integrals of substantially more general types of functions (e.g. smooth functions) is obstructed by considerations from the foundations of mathematics. |
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| spellingShingle | Integration on the Surreals Costin, Ovidiu Ehrlich, Philip Logic Primary 03E15, 03H05, 12J15, 34E05, Secondary 03E25, 03E35, 03E75 Conway's real closed field $\mathbf{No}$ of surreal numbers is a sweeping generalization of the real numbers and the ordinals to which a number of elementary functions such as log and exponentiation have been shown to extend. The problems of identifying significant classes of functions that can be so extended and of defining integration for them have proven to be formidable. In this paper we address this and related unresolved issues by showing that extensions to $\mathbf{No}$, and thereby integrals, exist for most functions arising in practical applications. In particular, we show they exist for a large subclass of the \emph{resurgent functions}, a subclass that contains the functions that at $\infty$ are semi-algebraic, semi-analytic, analytic, meromorphic, and Borel summable as well as solutions to nonresonant linear and nonlinear meromorphic systems of ODEs or of difference equations. By suitable changes of variables we deal with arbitrarily located singular points. We further establish a sufficient condition for the theory to carry over to ordered exponential subfields of $\mathbf{No}$ more generally and illustrate the result with structures familiar from the surreal literature. The extensions of functions and integrals that concern us are constructive in nature, which permits us to work in NBG less the Axiom of Choice (for both sets and proper classes). Following the completion of the positive portion of the paper, it is shown that the existence of such constructive extensions and integrals of substantially more general types of functions (e.g. smooth functions) is obstructed by considerations from the foundations of mathematics. |
| title | Integration on the Surreals |
| topic | Logic Primary 03E15, 03H05, 12J15, 34E05, Secondary 03E25, 03E35, 03E75 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.14331 |