Difference fields and descent in algebraic dynamics. I

DOI10.1017/S1474748008000273zbMATH Open1165.03014arXiv0711.3864OpenAlexW2963451962MaRDI QIDQ3535689FDOQ3535689

Authors: Zoé Chatzidakis, Ehud Hrushovski 

Publication date: 13 November 2008

Published in: Journal of the Institute of Mathematics of Jussieu (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We draw a connection between the model-theoretic notions of modularity (or one-basedness), orthogonality and internality, as applied to difference fields, and questions of descent in in algebraic dynamics. In particular we prove in any dimension a strong dynamical version of Northcott's theorem for function fields, answering a question of Szpiro and Tucker and generalizing a theorem of Baker's for the projective line. The paper comes in three parts. This first part contains an exposition some of the main results of the model theory of difference fields, and their immediate connection to questions of descent in algebraic dynamics. We present the model-theoretic notion of internality in a context that does not require a universal domain with quantifier-elimination. We also note a version of canonical heights that applies well beyond polarized algebraic dynamics. Part II sharpens the structure theory to arbitrary base fields and constructible maps where in part I we emphasize finite base change and correspondences. Part III will include precise structure theorems related to the Galois theory considered here, and will enable a sharpening of the descent results for non-modular dynamics.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0711.3864

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zbMATH Keywords

algebraic dynamicsmodel theorydifference fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Model-theoretic algebra (03C60) Difference algebra (12H10) Model theory of fields (12L12)

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