Linear Relations Among Galois Conjugates Over \mathbb{F}_q(t)

DOI10.1007/S40993-022-00331-YMaRDI QIDQ6363232arXivWikidataFDO

Authors Will Hardt

Publication date 18 March 2021

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/S40993-022-00331-Y

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other combinatorial number theory (11B75) Galois theory (11R32) Arithmetic theory of algebraic function fields (11R58) Arithmetic theory of polynomial rings over finite fields (11T55)

arXiv classification

math.COmath.NT

Abstract: We classify the coefficients $(a_1,\mathrm{...},a_n)inmathbb{F}_q[t{]}^n$ that can appear in a linear relation $su{m}_{i=1}^n{a}_{i}gamm{a}_i=0$ among Galois conjugates $gamm{a}_{i}inoverlinemathbb{F}_q(t)$. We call such an $n$-tuple a Smyth tuple. Our main theorem gives an affirmative answer to a function field analogue of a 1986 conjecture of Smyth over $mathbbQ$. Smyth showed that certain local conditions on the $a_i$ are necessary and conjectured that they are sufficient. Our main result is that the analogous conditions are necessary and sufficient over $mathbb{F}_q(t)$, which we show using a combinatorial characterization of Smyth tuples due to Smyth. We also formulate a generalization of Smyth's Conjecture in an arbitrary number field that is not a straightforward generalization of the conjecture over $mathbbQ$ due to a subtlety occurring at the archimedean places.

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