Model Theory Seminar | Patrick Speissegger (McMaster)
Nov 27, 2025
12:30PM to 1:30PM
Date/Time
Date(s) - 27/11/2025
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Speaker: Patrick Speissegger (McMaster)
Location: Hamilton Hall, Room 410
Title: Multisummable functions and o-minimality, Part II
Abstract: To show that the Gamma function, restricted to the positive real half-axis, generates an o-minimal structure over the real field, we had to show (in collaboration with Lou van den Dries) that the expansion of the real field by all functions that are multisummable in the positive real direction is o-minimal. In the more recent context of the Pila-Wilkie estimates, this structure is receiving some renewed interest. I will summarize some of these new developments concerning multisummability and o-minimality. (And yes, I will explain what multisummability is.)