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Let F be a characteristic zero
differential field with an algebraically closed field of constants
C . Let E and K be no new constants extensions of F, E contains K, Kis an extension by antiderivatives of F
and Econtain antiderivatives y1,&hellip,yn of K. The
antiderivatives y1,&hellip,ynof K are called J-I-E
antiderivatives if the derivative of each yisatisfies certain conditions. We will provide a new proof for the Kolchin-Ostrowski theorem and
generalize this theorem for a tower of extensions by J-I-E
antiderivatives and use this generalized version of the theorem to
classify the finitely differentially generated subfields of this
tower. In the process, we will show that the J-I-E antiderivatives
are algebraically independent over the ground differential field.
An example of a J-I-E tower is the iterated antiderivative extensions
of the field of rational functions C(x) generated by iterated
logarithms, closed at each stage by all (translation)
automorphisms. We analyze the algebraic and differential structure
of these extensions. In particular, we show that the nth iterated
logarithms and their translates are algebraically independent over
the field generated by all lower level iterated logarithms. Our
analysis provides an algorithm for determining the differential
field generated by any rational expression in iterated logarithms.