The precontraction group of the field of logarithmic transseries $\mathbb{T}_{\log}$

Abstract

As a first step to understand the theory of the structure $\mathbb{T}_{\log}$ of logarithmic transseries as an ordered valued logarithmic field, we focus on the map $\chi$ induced by the logarithm of $\mathbb{T}_{\log}$ in its value group $\Gamma_{\log}$ and study the theory of the precontraction group $(\Gamma_{\log},\chi)$. Particularly, we show that this theory is model complete and complete, and we characterize all definable subsets of the discrete set $\chi(\Gamma_{\log})$.