Functional degrees and arithmetic applications II: The Group-Theoretic Prime Ax-Katz Theorem

Publication date 2 May 2023

Polynomial rings and ideals; rings of integer-valued polynomials (13F20) Group rings of finite groups and their modules (group-theoretic aspects) (20C05) Finite abelian groups (20K01)

Abstract: We give a version of Ax-Katz's

p

-adic congruences and Moreno-Moreno's

p

-weight refinement that holds over any finite commutative ring of prime characteristic. We deduce this from a purely group-theoretic result that gives a lower bound on the

p

-adic divisibility of the number of simultaneous zeros of a system of maps

f_{j} : A o B_{j}

from a fixed ``source finite commutative group $A$ of exponent $p$ to varying ``target finite commutative

p

-groups

B_{j}

. Our proof combines Wilson's proof of Ax-Katz over

m a t h b b F_{p}

with the functional calculus of Aichinger-Moosbauer.

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