Algebraic function solutions of a certain class of functional equations

DOI10.1007/BF01235775MaRDI QIDQ1060250zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Keiji Nishioka

Publication date 1985

Published in Archiv der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01235775

zbMATH Keywords

algebraic function solutionsdifferential algebraformal power seriesfunctional equationMahler's methodrational functiontranscendence theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Transcendence (general theory) (11J81) Transcendence theory of other special functions (11J91) Differential algebra (12H05) Functional equations and inequalities (39B99)

Review text

The following is a special case of the result proved in the paper. Suppose \(f(z_ 1,...,z_ n)\) in \({\mathbb C}((z_ 1,...,z_ n))\) satisfies the functional equation \[ f(z_ 1^{p_ 1},...,z_ n^{p_ n})=F(z_ 1,...,z_ n,f(z_ 1,...,z_ n)), \] where \(F\) is a rational function. If \(f\) is algebraic over \({\mathbb C}(z_ 1,...,z_ n)\), then it is in fact in \({\mathbb C}(z_ 1,...,z_ n)\). Theorems of this type are of interest in connection with Mahler's method in transcendence theory. The theorem is proved by a nice application of some differential algebra. For background comment and other results of this type obtained by less elegant methods, see the articles by the reviewer and \textit{A. J. van der Poorten}, pp. 211--226 (Zbl 0378.10020) and \textit{K. K. Kubota}, pp. 227-- 229 (Zbl 0378.10021) in Transcendence theory: advances and applications, Proc. Conf., Cambridge 1976 (1977; Zbl 0357.00010).

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