Variables separated equations: strikingly different roles for the branch cycle lemma and the finite simple group classification

DOI10.1007/S11425-011-4324-4zbMATH Open1330.12001arXiv1012.5297OpenAlexW2044976615WikidataQ59664839 ScholiaQ59664839MaRDI QIDQ424257FDOQ424257

Authors: Michael D. Fried 

Publication date: 31 May 2012

Published in: Science China. Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: H. Davenport's Problem asks: What can we expect of two polynomials, over the integers, with the same ranges on almost all residue class fields? This stood out among many separated variable problems posed by Davenport, D.J. Lewis and A. Schinzel. By bounding the degrees, but expanding the maps and variables in Davenport's Problem, Galois stratification enhanced the separated variable theme, solving an Ax and Kochen problem from their Artin Conjecture work. J. Denef and F. Loeser applied this to add Chow motive coefficients to previously introduced zeta functions on a diophantine statement. By restricting the variables, but leaving the degrees unbounded, we found the striking distinction between Davenport's problem over the rationals, solved by applying the Branch Cycle Lemma, and its generalization over any number field, solved using the simple group classification. This encouraged J. Thompson to formulate the genus 0 problem on rational function monodromy groups. R. Guralnick and Thompson led its solution in stages. We look at at two developments since the solution of Davenport's problem. * Stemming from C. MacCluer's 1967 thesis, identifying a general class of problems, including Davenport's, as monodromy precise. * R(iemann) E(xistence) T(heorem)'s role as a converse to problems generalizing Davenport's, and Schinzel's (on reducibility). We use these to consider: Going beyond the simple group classification to handle imprimitive groups; and what is the role of covers and correspondences in going from algebraic equations to zeta functions with Chow motive coefficients.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1012.5297

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zbMATH Keywords

group representationsprimitive groupcoversmonodromy groupopen image theoremfiber productsnormal varietiesDavenport pairGalois stratificationgenus zero problemRiemann's existence theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Field arithmetic (12E30) Separable extensions, Galois theory (12F10) Arithmetic theory of algebraic function fields (11R58) Polynomials in general fields (irreducibility, etc.) (12E05) Coverings of curves, fundamental group (14H30) Finite simple groups and their classification (20D05) Arithmetic aspects of modular and Shimura varieties (11G18)

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