We give three proofs that valuation rings are derived splinters: a geometric proof using absolute integral closure, homological which reduces the problem to checking splinters (which is done in second author’s PhD thesis and we reprise here), by approximation Bhatt’s of direct summand conjecture. The property also shows smooth algebras over splinters.

This thesis is devoted to a study of real holomorphy rings in R(x) and elliptic function fields R(x)( √ f(x)), f is a monic polynomial of degree 3 with no multiple roots in C over R and sums of powers in R(x). The objects of study are real valuation rings, real holomorphy rings and real places in the rational function fields R(x) and then investigate their extension to elliptic function fields ...

SV-rings are commutative rings whose factor rings modulo prime ideals are valuation rings. SV-rings occur most naturally in connection with partially ordered rings (= porings) and have been studied only in this context so far. The present note first develops the theory of SV-rings systematically, without assuming the presence of a partial order. Particular attention is paid to the question of a...