Axiomatizability of existentially closed globally valued fields

Let ee be a real number. A globally valued field has archimedean error ee when its archimedean valuation data satisfy the error parameter specified by ee. A globally valued field is existentially closed if, for every extension MNM\to N of globally valued fields, every quantifier-free formula ff with parameters aMVa\in M^V, and every bound rR+r\in\mathbf R_+, an approximate solution in NN of height at most rr can be approximated in MM with height at most r+\epsr+\eps for every \eps>0\eps>0.

Axiomatizability conjecture. There exists a theory in the language of globally valued fields whose models are exactly the existentially closed globally valued fields of archimedean error ee.

For ordinary algebraically closed and real closed fields, analogous characterizations are provided by the Nullstellensatz and Positivstellensatz. The corresponding first-order axiomatizability question for globally valued fields is presented as open; the claim concerns whether the existentially closed fields with fixed archimedean error admit such an axiomatization.

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Antoine Chambert-Loir, “La logique continue des corps globalement valués”, arXiv:2506.20120 (2025).

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