On semibounded expansions of ordered groups

Abstract

We explore "semibounded" expansions of arbitrary ordered groups; namely, expansions that do not define a field on the whole universe. We show that if $\mathcal R=\langle R, <, +, \dots\rangle$ is a semibounded o-minimal structure and $P\subseteq R$ a set satisfying certain tameness conditions, then $\langle \cal R, P\rangle$ remains semibounded. Examples include the cases when $\mathcal{R}=\langle \mathbb R,<,+, (x\mapsto \lambda x)_{\lambda \in \mathbb R}, \cdot_{ [0, 1]^2} \rangle$, and $P= 2^\mathbb Z$ or $P$ is an iteration sequence. As an application, we obtain that smooth functions definable in such $\langle \mathcal R, P\rangle$ are definable in $\mathcal R$.