JOURNAL OF SYMBOLIC LOGIC, cilt.68, sa.3, ss.923-945, 2003 (SCI-Expanded)
Fields of characteristic zero with several commuting derivations can be treated as fields equipped with a space of derivations that is closed under the Lie bracket. The existentially closed instances of such structures can then be given a coordinate-free characterization in terms of differential forms. The main tool for doing this is a generalization of the Frobenius Theorem of differential geometry.