Submission date: 31 August 2011.

Abstract:

We give a short proof of Macintyre's Theorem on Quantifier Elimination for the p-adic numbers, using a version of monomialization that follows directly from the Weak Toroidalization Theorem of Abramovich an Karu (extended to non-closed fields).

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Full text arXiv 1108.6237: pdf, ps.