Abstract

When [Formula: see text] is a finite field, [J. Becker, J. Denef and L. Lipshitz, Further remarks on the elementary theory of formal power series rings, in Model Theory of Algebra and Arithmetic, Proceedings Karpacz, Poland, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Vol. 834 (Springer, Berlin, 1979)] observed that the total residue map [Formula: see text], which picks out the constant term of the Laurent series, is definable in the language of rings with a parameter for [Formula: see text]. Driven by this observation, we study the theory [Formula: see text] of valued fields equipped with a linear form [Formula: see text] which restricts to the residue map on the valuation ring. We prove that [Formula: see text] does not admit a model companion. In addition, we show that [Formula: see text] is undecidable whenever [Formula: see text] is an infinite field. As a consequence, we get that [Formula: see text] is undecidable, where [Formula: see text] maps [Formula: see text] to its complex residue at [Formula: see text].