On defining irreducibility
Pascal Koiran
Abstract
We show that irreducibility is not a first-order definable property of real algebraic varieties. The proof is based on the recent o-minimality result for the exponential function. We conjecture that irreducibility is not a definable property of complex algebraic varieties.
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