663 research outputs found
Composite lacunary polynomials and the proof of a conjecture of Schinzel
Let be a fixed non-constant complex polynomial. It was conjectured by
Schinzel that if has boundedly many terms, then h(x)\in \C[x] must
also have boundedly many terms. Solving an older conjecture raised by R\'enyi
and by Erd\"os, Schinzel had proved this in the special cases ;
however that method does not extend to the general case. Here we prove the full
Schinzel's conjecture (actually in sharper form) by a completely different
method. Simultaneously we establish an "algorithmic" parametric description of
the general decomposition , where is a polynomial with a
given number of terms and are arbitrary polynomials. As a corollary, this
implies for instance that a polynomial with terms and given coefficients is
non-trivially decomposable if and only if the degree-vector lies in the union
of certain finitely many subgroups of .Comment: 9 page
Hilbert Irreducibility above algberaic groups
The paper offers versions of Hilbert's Irreducibility Theorem for the lifting
of points in a cyclic subgroup of an algebraic group to a ramified cover. A
version of Bertini Theorem in this context is also obtained.Comment: 22 page
On the Hilbert Property and the Fundamental Group of Algebraic Varieties
We review, under a perspective which appears different from previous ones,
the so-called Hilbert Property (HP) for an algebraic variety (over a number
field); this is linked to Hilbert's Irreducibility Theorem and has important
implications, for instance towards the Inverse Galois Problem.
We shall observe that the HP is in a sense `opposite' to the Chevalley-Weil
Theorem, which concerns unramified covers; this link shall immediately entail
the result that the HP can possibly hold only for simply connected varieties
(in the appropriate sense). In turn, this leads to new counterexamples to the
HP, involving Enriques surfaces. We also prove the HP for a K3 surface related
to the above Enriques surface, providing what appears to be the first example
of a non-rational variety for which the HP can be proved.
We also formulate some general conjectures relating the HP with the topology
of algebraic varieties.Comment: 24 page
A lower bound for the height of a rational function at -unit points
Let be a finitely generated subgroup of the multiplicative group
\G_m^2(\bar{Q}). Let p(X,Y),q(X,Y)\in\bat{Q} be two coprime polynomials not
both vanishing at ; let . We prove that, for all
outside a proper Zariski closed subset of , the height
of verifies . As a consequence, we deduce upper bounds for (a generalized
notion of) the g.c.d. of for running over .Comment: Plain TeX 18 pages. Version 2; minor changes. To appear on
Monatshefte fuer Mathemati
Integral points, divisibility between values of polynomials and entire curves on surfaces
We prove some new degeneracy results for integral points and entire curves on
surfaces; in particular, we provide the first example, to our knowledge, of a
simply connected smooth variety whose sets of integral points are never
Zariski-dense (and no entire curve has Zariski-dense image). Some of our
results are connected with divisibility problems, i.e. the problem of
describing the integral points in the plane where the values of some given
polynomials in two variables divide the values of other given polynomials.Comment: minor changes, two references adde
Rational points in periodic analytic sets and the Manin-Mumford conjecture
We present a new proof of the Manin-Mumford conjecture about torsion points
on algebraic subvarieties of abelian varieties. Our principle, which admits
other applications, is to view torsion points as rational points on a complex
torus and then compare (i) upper bounds for the number of rational points on a
transcendental analytic variety (Bombieri-Pila-Wilkie) and (ii) lower bounds
for the degree of a torsion point (Masser), after taking conjugates. In order
to be able to deal with (i), we discuss (Thm. 2.1) the semi-algebraic curves
contained in an analytic variety supposed invariant for translations by a full
lattice, which is a topic with some independent motivation.Comment: 12 page
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