If not, are there any such properties?
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Do the properties of metric completeness and algebraic closure characterize the complex numbers up to isomorphism?
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I cannot find the topic where I thought I saw this a couple days ago, so here it is:
Short answer: No. There are infinitely many fields which are complete and algebraically closed and not isomorphic to $\Bbb C$.
You want a minimal algebraically closed, complete, archimedean field containing $\overline{\Bbb Q}$ or $\Bbb R$, or something of the like. You could also use locally compact, archimedean, algebraically closed and drop the minimal assumption.