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Existence of irreducible principal series of order type ω^{3ω+2}

Determine whether there exists any irreducible principal series b in K((R^{≤0})) with order type ω^{3ω+2} and sup(supp(b)) = 0; equivalently, decide whether P_{3ω+2} contains an irreducible element.

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Background

Within their inductive analysis of principal elements by Cantor normal form, the authors establish irreducibility for many cases, including α = 3ω + 1. However, the next case α = 3ω + 2 remains unsettled.

They explicitly note that α = 3ω + 2 is currently the smallest ordinal for which they do not know if any irreducible element exists in P_α (the set of principal series of order type ωα).

References

In fact, 3\omega + 2 is now the smallest \alpha for which we do not know whether there exists any irreducible element in $P_{\alpha}$.

Irreducibility in generalized power series (2405.13815 - Fornasiero et al., 22 May 2024) in Section 4, Subsection “The case ω^{α1}+ω^{α2}+ω^{α3}”