Partial zeta functions of algebraic varieties over finite fields (Q5927549)

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Partial zeta functions of algebraic varieties over finite fields
scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1579931

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    Partial zeta functions of algebraic varieties over finite fields (English)
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    15 October 2002
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    The author introduces the notion of a partial zeta function which generalizes the classical zeta function of an algebraic variety defined over a finite field. More precisely, let \(X\) be an affine algebraic variety over \(\mathbb F_q\) embedded in some affine space \(\mathbb A^n\). Let \(d_1, \cdots, d_n\) be n positive integers. For each \(k\), let \[ N_{d_1,\cdots,d_n}(k,X)=\#\{x\in X(\overline{\mathbb F_q})\mid x_1\in\mathbb F_{q^{d_1k}},\cdots,x_n\in\mathbb F_{q^{d_nk}}\}, \] then the associated partial zeta function \(Z_{d_1,\cdots,d_n}(X,T)\) is defined as \[ Z_{d_1,\cdots,d_n}(X,T)=\exp \big(\sum_{k=1}^{\infty}\frac{N_{d_1,\cdots,d_n}}{k}T^k \big). \] In the special case that \(d_1=\cdots=d_n=d\), the partial zeta function \(Z_{d,\cdots,d}(X,T)\) becomes the classical zeta function \(Z(X\otimes\mathbb F_q,T)\) which is rational and satisfies a suitable Riemann hypothesis. In this paper, the author gives two approaches to the general structural properties of the partial zeta function in the direction of the Weil-type conjectures. The first one, using an inductive fibred variety point of view, shows that the partial zeta function is rational when the sequence of positive integers \(\{d_1,\cdots,d_n\}\) can be rearranged such that \(d_1|d_2|\cdots|d_n\). The second approach, due to Faltings, shows that the partial zeta function is always nearly rational. In the last section, the author gives some examples and explains briefly their connections with other more classical problems.
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    partial zeta function
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    finite ground field
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    Weil-type conjectures
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