Uncomputably large integral points on algebraic plane curves?

decidability diophantine prefix geometry of complex surfaces and 3-folds height bounds Hilbert's Tenth Problem polynomials uncomputably large integral points on algebraic curves

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Decidability of theories and sets of sentences (03B25) Undecidability and degrees of sets of sentences (03D35) Diophantine equations in many variables (11D72) [https://duckduckgo.com/?q=MSC%2011G30%20%22Curves+of+arbitrary+genus+or+genus+%28%0D%0Ae+1%29+over+global+fields%22 Curves of arbitrary genus or genus ( e 1) over global fields (11G30)] Decidability (number-theoretic aspects) (11U05) Arithmetic problems in algebraic geometry; Diophantine geometry (14G99) Curves in algebraic geometry (14H99) Rational and ruled surfaces (14J26)

Abstract: We show that the decidability of an amplification of Hilbert's Tenth Problem in three variables implies the existence of uncomputably large integral points on certain algebraic curves. We obtain this as a corollary of a new positive complexity result: the Diophantine prefixes EAE and EEAE are generically decidable. This means, taking the former prefix as an example, that we give a precise geometric classification of those polynomials f in Z[v,x,y] for which the question... ``Does there exists a v in N such that for all x in N, there exists a y in N with f(v,x,y)=0? ...may be undecidable, and we show that this set of polynomials is quite small in a rigourous sense. (The decidability of EAE was previously an open question.) The analogous result for the prefix EEAE is even stronger. We thus obtain a connection between the decidability of certain Diophantine problems, height bounds for points on curves, and the geometry of certain complex surfaces and 3-folds.

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