Pseudo algebraically closed field
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In mathematics, a field K is pseudo algebraically closed (usually abbreviated by PAC) if one of the following equivalent conditions holds:
- Each absolutely irreducible variety V defined over K has a K-rational point.
- Each absolutely irreducible polynomial
with
and for each nonzero
there exists
such that
and
. - Each absolutely irreducible polynomial
has infinitely many K-rational points. - If R is a finitely generated integral domain over K with quotient field which is regular over K, then there exist a homomorphism
such that h(a) = a for each 
[edit] Examples
- Algebraically closed fields and separably closed fields are always PAC.
- A non-principal ultraproduct of distinct finite fields is PAC.
- Infinite algebraic extensions of finite fields are PAC.
- This example arises from measure theory: The absolute Galois group G of a field K is profinite, hence compact, and hence equipped with a normalized Haar measure. Let K be a countable Hilbertian field and let e be a positive integer. Then for almost all e-tuple
, the fixed field of the subgroup generated by the automorphisms is PAC. Here the phrase "almost all" means "all but a set of measure zero".
[edit] References
- M. D. Fried and M. Jarden, Field Arithmetic, Second Edition, revised and enlarged by Moshe Jarden, Ergebnisse der Mathematik (3) 11, Springer, Heidelberg, 2004.

