April 14, 2023 (v1)
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In this paper we present a refined version of MacLane's theory of key polynomials, similar to those considered by M. Vaqui\'e and reminiscent of approximate roots of Abhyankar and Moh. Given a simple transcendental extension of valued fields, we associate to it a countable well-ordered set of polynomials called key polynomials. We define limit...
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