The Hilbert-Schinzel specialization property

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Abstract: We establish a version "over the ring" of the celebrated Hilbert Irreducibility Theorem. Given finitely many polynomials in k+n variables, with coefficients in mathbbZ, of positive degree in the last n variables, we show that if they are irreducible over mathbbZ and satisfy a necessary "Schinzel condition", then the first k variables can be specialized in a Zariski-dense subset of mathbbZk in such a way that irreducibility over mathbbZ is preserved for the polynomials in the remaining n variables. The Schinzel condition, which comes from the Schinzel Hypothesis, is that, when specializing the first k variables in mathbbZk, the product of the polynomials should not always be divisible by some common prime number. Our result also improves on a "coprime" version of the Schinzel Hypothesis: under some Schinzel condition, coprime polynomials assume coprime values. We prove our results over many other rings than mathbbZ, e.g. UFDs and Dedekind domains for the last one.









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