Submission date: 1 November 2019

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In this paper, we characterize NIP henselian valued fields modulo the theory of their residue field, both in an algebraic and in a model-theoretic way. Assuming the conjecture that every infinite NIP field is either separably closed, real closed or admits a non-trivial henselian valuation, this allows us to obtain a characterization of all theories of NIP fields.

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Full text arXiv 1911.00309: pdf, ps.