Globally valued fields: foundations

Abstract

We present foundations of globally valued fields, i.e., of a class of fields with an extra structure, capturing some aspects of the geometry of global fields, based on the product formula. We provide a dictionary between various data defining such extra structure: syntactic (models of some unbounded continuous logic theory), Arakelov theoretic, and measure theoretic. In particular we obtain a representation theorem relating globally valued fields and adelic curves defined by Chen and Moriwaki.

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