This second part of the paper strengthens the descent theory described in the first part to rational maps, arbitrary base fields, and dynamics given by correspondences. We obtain in particular a decomposition of any difference field extension into a tower of finite, field-internal and one-based difference field extensions. This is needed in order to obtain the dynamical Northcott Theorem 1.11 of Part I in sharp form.
We study the automorphism group of the algebraic closure of a substructure A of a pseudo-finite field F. We show that the behavior of this group, even when A is large, depends essentially on the roots of unity in F. For almost all completions of the theory of pseudo-finite fields we show that algebraic closure agrees with definable closure, as soon as A contains the relative algebraic closure of the prime field.
We prove field quantifier elimination for valued fields endowed with both an analytic structure and an automorphism that are $sigma$-Henselian. From this result we can deduce various Ax-Kochen-Ersov type results with respect to completeness and the NIP property. The main example we are interested in is the field of Witt vectors on the algebraic closure of $mathbb{F}_{p}$ endowed with its natural analytic structure and the lifting of the Frobenius. It turns out we can give a (reasonable) axiomatization of its first order theory and that this theory is NIP.
We construct a semi-orthogonal decomposition on the category of perfect complexes on the blow-up of a derived Artin stack in a quasi-smooth centre. This gives a generalization of Thomasons blow-up formula in algebraic K-theory to derived stacks. We also provide a new criterion for descent in Voevodskys cdh topology, which we use to give a direct proof of Cisinskis theorem that Weibels homotopy invariant K-theory satisfies cdh descent.
We initiate the study of p-adic algebraic groups G from the stability-theoretic and definable topological-dynamical points of view, that is, we consider invariants of the action of G on its space of types over Q_p in the language of fields. We consider the additive and multiplicative groups of Q_p and Z_p, the group of upper triangular invertible 2times 2 matrices, SL(2,Z_p), and, our main focus, SL(2,Q_p). In all cases we identify f-generic types (when they exist), minimal subflows, and idempotents. Among the main results is that the ``Ellis group of SL(2,Q_p)$ is the profinite completion of Z, yielding a counterexample to Newelskis conjecture with new features: G = G^{00} = G^{000} but the Ellis group is infinite. A final section deals with the action of SL(2,Q_p) on the type-space of the projective line over Q_p.
Let us consider an algebraic function field defined over a finite Galois extension $K$ of a perfect field $k$. We give some conditions allowing the descent of the definition field of the algebraic function field from $K$ to $k$. We apply these results to the descent of the definition field of a tower of function fields.We give explicitly the equations of the intermediate steps of an Artin-Schreier type extension reduced from $F_{q^2}$ to $F_q$. By applying these results to a completed Garcia-Stichtenoths tower we improve the upper bounds and the upper asymptotic bounds of the bilinear complexity of the multiplication in finite fields.