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A Sheaf Model of the Algebraic Closure

  • Bassel Mannaa
    ,
  • Thierry Coquand
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Research Output:
Journal Article or Conference Article in Journal
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Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science

Publication milestones

  • Published - 17/04/2014

Publication status

Published - 17/04/2014

ISSN

2075-2180

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  • Scopus: 84938568441

Abstract

In constructive algebra one cannot in general decide the irreducibility of a polynomial over a field K. This poses some problems to showing the existence of the algebraic closure of K. We give a possible constructive interpretation of the existence of the algebraic closure of a field in characteristic 0 by building, in a constructive metatheory, a suitable site model where there is such an algebraic closure. One can then extract computational content from this model. We give examples of computation based on this model.

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