A generalization of Baker's theorem

DOI10.1016/J.FFA.2009.04.003MaRDI QIDQ623235zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Peter Beelen

Publication date 14 February 2011

Published in Finite Fields and their Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ffa.2009.04.003

zbMATH Keywords

Baker's theoremCastelnuovo's inequalityNewton polygonNewton polytopeRiemann-Roch space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Arithmetic theory of algebraic function fields (11R58) Algebraic functions and function fields in algebraic geometry (14H05)

Review text

The author provides an elementary proof of Baker's theorem [\textit{H. F. Baker}, Trans. Camb. Philos. Soc. 15, 403--450 (1894)], which establishes that the genus of the function field of an absolutely irreducible polynomial \(F(X,Y)\) is bounded from above by the number of interior integral points of its Newton polygon. The proof uses only convexity of the Newton polygon and basic properties of valuations. Furthermore, using a result of \textit{A. M. Ostrowski} on Newton polytopes [Aequationes Math. 14, 1--32 (1976; Zbl 0319.13005)], Baker's theorem is extended to a compositum of a finite collection \(\{\mathbb{F}(x_i,y)\}_{i=1}^n\) of such function fields with each \(\mathbb{F}(x_i,y)\) linearly disjoint from \(\mathbb{F}(x_1,...,x_{i-1},x_{i+1},...,x_n,y)\) over \(\mathbb{F}(y)\). Finally, the author provides some examples that distinguish this extension of Baker's theorem from Castelnuovo's inequality.

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