Quadratic factors of f(X)-g(Y)

DOI10.1016/S0019-3577(07)80019-XMaRDI QIDQ2465614zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Peter Müller, Manisha Kulkarni, Balasubramanian Sury

Publication date 7 January 2008

Published in Indagationes Mathematicae. New Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0610549

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polynomials (irreducibility, etc.) (11R09) Galois theory (11R32)

Abstract: We classify the pairs of polynomials $f,g$ over a field $K$, such that $f(X)-g(Y)$ has a factor of total degree at most 2. This was done by Y. Bilu for characteristic 0 fields $K$. As his method does not work in positive characteristic, we use a quite different approach.

Review text

\textit{Y. Bilu} [Acta Arith. 90, No. 4, 341--355 (1999; Zbl 0935.12003)] classified the pairs of polynomials \(f, g\) over a field of characteristic \(0\) such that \(f (X)- g(Y)\) has an irreducible factor of degree \(2.\) In the present paper the authors extend this result to arbitrary characteristic. The proofs depend on standard Galois theory arguments, on Lüroth's theorem and on ideas of [\textit{G. Turnwald}, Number theory in progress. Volume 1: Diophantine problems and polynomials. Berlin: de Gruyter, 539--552 (1999; Zbl 0942.11046)].

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