Large implies henselian

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Main Authors: Johnson, Will, Tran, Chieu-Minh, Walsberg, Erik, Ye, Jinhe
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author Johnson, Will
Tran, Chieu-Minh
Walsberg, Erik
Ye, Jinhe
author_facet Johnson, Will
Tran, Chieu-Minh
Walsberg, Erik
Ye, Jinhe
contents Fix a field $K$. We show that $K$ is large if and only if some elementary extension of $K$ is the fraction field of a henselian local domain which is not a field. The proof uses a new result about the étale-open topology over $K$: if $K$ is not separably closed and $V \to W$ is an étale morphism of $K$-varieties then $V(K) \to W(K)$ is a local homeomorphism in the étale-open topology. This, in turn, follows from results comparing the étale-open topology on $V(K)$ and the finite-closed topology on $V(K)$, newly introduced in this paper. We show that the étale-open topology refines the finite-closed topology when $K$ is perfect, and that the finite-closed topology refines the étale-open topology when $K$ is bounded. It follows that these two topologies agree in many natural examples. On the other hand, we construct several examples where these two differ, which allows us to answer a question of Lampe.
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Johnson, Will
Tran, Chieu-Minh
Walsberg, Erik
Ye, Jinhe
Logic
Algebraic Geometry
Fix a field $K$. We show that $K$ is large if and only if some elementary extension of $K$ is the fraction field of a henselian local domain which is not a field. The proof uses a new result about the étale-open topology over $K$: if $K$ is not separably closed and $V \to W$ is an étale morphism of $K$-varieties then $V(K) \to W(K)$ is a local homeomorphism in the étale-open topology. This, in turn, follows from results comparing the étale-open topology on $V(K)$ and the finite-closed topology on $V(K)$, newly introduced in this paper. We show that the étale-open topology refines the finite-closed topology when $K$ is perfect, and that the finite-closed topology refines the étale-open topology when $K$ is bounded. It follows that these two topologies agree in many natural examples. On the other hand, we construct several examples where these two differ, which allows us to answer a question of Lampe.
title Large implies henselian
topic Logic
Algebraic Geometry
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10886