On the abc conjecture and diophantine approximation by rational points

DOI10.1353/AJM.2000.0031MaRDI QIDQ4504249zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Paul Vojta

Publication date 11 January 2001

Published in American Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9908024, http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_journal_of_mathematics/toc/ajm122.4.html

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Varieties over global fields (11G35) Heights (11G50) Global ground fields in algebraic geometry (14G25) Value distribution of meromorphic functions of one complex variable, Nevanlinna theory (30D35) Diophantine inequalities (11D75) Diophantine inequalities (11J25) Number-theoretic analogues of methods in Nevanlinna theory (work of Vojta et al.) (11J97)

Abstract: We show that an earlier conjecture of the author, on diophantine approximation of rational points on varieties, implies the ``abc conjecture of Masser and Oesterl'e. In fact, a weak form of the former conjecture is sufficient, involving an extra hypothesis that the variety and divisor admit a faithful group action of a certain type. Analogues of this weaker conjecture are proved in the split function field case of characteristic zero, and in the case of holomorphic curves (Nevanlinna theory). The proof of the latter involves a geometric generalization of the classical lemma on the logarithmic derivative, due to McQuillan. This lemma may be of independent interest.

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