Model Theoretic Algebra With Particular Emphasis on Fields, Rings, Modules

Christian. U Jensen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) (Author) , Helmt Lenzing (Paderborn University, Germany) (Author)

Introduction, ultraproducts, definitions and examples; elementary equivalence - axiomatizable and finitely axiomatizable classes - examples and results in field theory; elementary definability - applications to polynomial and power series rings and their quotient fields; peano rings and peano fields; hilbertian fields and realizations of finite groups as galois groups; the language of modules over a fixed ring; algebraically compact modules; decompositions and algebraic compactness; the two sorted language of modules over unspecified rings; the first order theory of rings; pure global dimension and algebraically compact rings; representation theory of finite dimensional algebras; problems; tables; basic notions and definitions from homological algebra; functor categories on finitely presented modules.