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    Uniform definability of henselian valuation rings in the Macintyre language

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    We discuss definability of henselian valuation rings in the Macintyre language LMac\mathcal{L}_{\rm Mac}, the language of rings expanded by n-th power predicates. In particular, we show that henselian valuation rings with finite or Hilbertian residue field are uniformly \exists-\emptyset-definable in LMac\mathcal{L}_{\rm Mac}, and henselian valuation rings with value group Z\mathbb{Z} are uniformly \exists\forall-\emptyset-definable in the ring language, but not uniformly \exists-\emptyset-definable in LMac\mathcal{L}_{\rm Mac}. We apply these results to local fields Qp\mathbb{Q}_p and Fp((t))\mathbb{F}_p((t)), as well as to higher dimensional local fields

    Random Galois extensions of Hilbertian fields

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    Let L be a Galois extension of a countable Hilbertian field K. Although L need not be Hilbertian, we prove that an abundance of large Galois subextensions of L/K are
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