Linear disjointness of coverings of affine spaces (Q5961638): Difference between revisions

Recently \textit{S. S. Abhyankar} provided a method of making two algebraic extensions of \(k(X)\) linearly disjoint by affine transformations [see Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 116, No. 1, 7-12 (1992; Zbl 0760.12003)]. More precisely, let \(k\) be an algebraically closed field, and \(F(X,Y)\) and \(G(X,Y)\) two polynomials of \(k[X,Y]\) without multiple roots as polynomials in \(Y\). Then Abhyankar proved that for most linear transformations \(\alpha\) of \(\mathbb{A}^1(k)\), the splitting fields of polynomials \(F(\alpha (X),Y)\) and \(G(X,Y)\) over \(k(X)\) are linearly disjoint over \(k(X)\). The main aim of the paper under review (which is part of the author's Ph.D. thesis at Purdue Univ.) is to generalize this result to the case where, instead of \(X\), one considers a vector variable \(X=(X_1, \dots, X_n)\).