Algebras of linear growth and the dynamical Mordell-Lang conjecture

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2018.11.016MaRDI QIDQ1711909zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Dmitri Piontkovski

Publication date 18 January 2019

Published in Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.06470

zbMATH Keywords

growthdynamical Mordell-Lang conjectureHilbert seriesgraded algebralinear recurrenceautomaton algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Formal languages and automata (68Q45) Group actions on varieties or schemes (quotients) (14L30) Graded rings and modules (associative rings and algebras) (16W50) Recurrences (11B37)

Abstract: Ufnarovski remarked in 1990 that it is unknown whether any finitely presented associative algebra of linear growth is automaton, that is, whether the set of normal words in the algebra form a regular language. If the algebra is graded, then the rationality of the Hilbert series of the algebra follows from the affirmative answer to Ufnarovski's question. Assuming that the ground field has a positive characteristic, we show that the answer to Ufnarovskii's question is positive if and only if the basic field is an algebraic extension of its prime subfield. Moreover, in the "only if" part we show that there exists a finitely presented graded algebra of linear growth with irrational Hilbert series. In addition, over an arbitrary infinite basic field, the set of Hilbert series of the quadratic algebras of linear growth with $5$ generators is infinite. Our approach is based on a connection with the dynamical Mordell--Lang conjecture. This conjecture describes the intersection of an orbit of an algebraic variety endomorphism with a subvariety. We show that the positive answer to Ufnarovski's question implies some known cases of the dynamical Mordell--Lang conjecture. In particular, the positive answer for a class of algebras is equivalent to the Skolem--Mahler--Lech theorem which says that the set of the zero elements of any linear recurrent sequence over a zero characteristic field is the finite union of several arithmetic progressions. In particular, the counter-examples to this theorem in the finite characteristic case give examples of algebras with irrational Hilbert series.

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