Skolem-Mahler-Lech type theorems and Picard-Vessiot theory

DOI10.4171/JEMS/509MaRDI QIDQ2018244zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Michael Wibmer

Publication date 13 April 2015

Published in Journal of the European Mathematical Society (JEMS) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.1449

zbMATH Keywords

dynamical Mordell-Lang conjecturelinear difference equationsPicard-Vessiot theorySkolem-Mahler-Lech theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear difference equations (39A06) Arithmetic progressions (11B25) Recurrences (11B37) Difference algebra (12H10)

Abstract: We show that three problems involving linear difference equations with rational function coefficients are essentially equivalent. The first problem is the generalization of the classical Skolem-Mahler-Lech theorem to rational function coefficients. The second problem is the question whether or not for a given linear difference equation there exists a Picard-Vessiot extension inside the ring of sequences. The third problem is a certain special case of the dynamical Mordell-Lang conjecture. This allows us to deduce solutions to the first two problems in a particular but fairly general special case.

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