Rings of differentiable semialgebraic functions

TL;DR

This paper studies the algebraic and topological properties of rings of differentiable semialgebraic functions, revealing their spectra, real closure relations, and similarities to real closed rings, with implications for algebraic geometry.

Contribution

It characterizes the spectra of differentiable semialgebraic function rings and establishes their homeomorphism with real closed rings, advancing understanding of their algebraic structure.

Findings

Spectra of ${ m extbf{S}}^r(M)$ are homeomorphic to those of ${ m extbf{S}}^0(M)$.

${ m extbf{S}}^r(M)$ has Krull dimension equal to $ ext{dim}(M)$.

${ m extbf{S}}^r(M)$ is a Gelfand ring with near real-closed properties.

Abstract

In this work we analyze the main properties of the Zariski and maximal spectra of the ring ${\mathcal S}^r(M)$ of differentiable semialgebraic functions of class ${\mathcal C}^r$ on a semialgebraic set $M\subset\mathbb{R}^m$. Denote ${\mathcal S}^0(M)$ the ring of semialgebraic functions on $M$ that admit a continuous extension to an open semialgebraic neighborhood of $M$ in $\text{cl}(M)$. This ring is the real closure of ${\mathcal S}^r(M)$. If $M$ is locally compact, the ring ${\mathcal S}^r(M)$ enjoys a Lojasiewicz's Nullstellensatz, which becomes a crucial tool. Despite ${\mathcal S}^r(M)$ is not real closed for $r\geq1$, the Zariski and maximal spectra of this ring are homeomorphic to the corresponding ones of the real closed ring ${\mathcal S}^0(M)$. In addition, the quotients of ${\mathcal S}^r(M)$ by its prime ideals have real closed fields of fractions, so the ring ${\mathcal S}^r(M)$ is close to be real closed. The missing property is that the sum of two radical ideals needs not to be a radical ideal. The homeomorphism between the spectra of ${\mathcal S}^r(M)$ and ${\mathcal S}^0(M)$ guarantee that all the properties of these rings that arise from spectra are the same for both rings. For instance, the ring ${\mathcal S}^r(M)$ is a Gelfand ring and its Krull dimension is equal to $\dim(M)$. We also show similar properties for the ring ${\mathcal S}^{r*}(M)$ of differentiable bounded semialgebraic functions. In addition, we confront the ring ${\mathcal S}^{\infty}(M)$ of differentiable semialgebraic functions of class ${\mathcal C}^{\infty}$ with the ring ${\mathcal N}(M)$ of Nash functions on $M$.