Submission date: 18 April 2013.

Abstract:

For an algebraically closed valued field K and its residue field k we will consider the residue map res from K to k as a (partial) specialisation, and show that transcendance degree of K over k controls the universality of res.

Mathematics Subject Classification: 03C07

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