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S Jun 15, 2019 at 5:55 history bounty ended Noah Schweber
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Jun 15, 2019 at 5:14 vote accept James E Hanson
Jun 14, 2019 at 21:59 answer added James E Hanson timeline score: 4
S Jun 13, 2019 at 15:15 history bounty started Noah Schweber
S Jun 13, 2019 at 15:15 history notice added Noah Schweber Draw attention
May 1, 2019 at 3:14 comment added James E Hanson Ah, sorry about that.
Apr 30, 2019 at 20:20 comment added Jonathan Schilhan I am very familiar with forcing. I was misreading "functions in $V$" as "functions in $V[G]$". In the sentence before that you write "the field of germs of meromorphic functions at a generic point", which implied, for me, that you mean meromorphic functions in $V[G]$.
Apr 30, 2019 at 15:00 comment added James E Hanson On the other hand if I choose a non-computable complex number $a$ and look at the field of germs of (computable) meromorphic functions at that point, then this field should be algebraically closed, since the zeroes and poles of a computable meromorphic function are always computable, so given any meromorphic function $f$ we can find a neighborhood of $a$ small enough that $f$ has no zeroes or poles in that neighborhood. Then there is a meromorphic square root of this function in that neighborhood.
Apr 30, 2019 at 14:57 comment added James E Hanson How familiar are you with forcing? The point $z$ is in some sense 'new'. Here's an analogous situation: Suppose I'm considering computable meromorphic functions on simple domains (like circles of rational radius with rational centers) and I want to find some field of germs at a point that is algebraically closed. This can never work if my point is computable because for any given computable complex number $a$, the function $f(z) = z-a$ cannot have a square root in any neighborhood of $a$.
Apr 30, 2019 at 1:03 history asked James E Hanson CC BY-SA 4.0