Defining $\mathbb{Z}$ in $\mathbb{Q}$
Number Theory
2013-11-14 v2 Logic
Abstract
We show that is definable in by a universal first-order formula in the language of rings. We also present an -formula for in with just one universal quantifier. We exhibit new diophantine subsets of like the complement of the image of the norm map under a quadratic extension, and we give an elementary proof of the fact that the set of non-squares is diophantine. Finally, we show that there is no existential formula for in , provided one assumes a strong variant of the Bombieri-Lang Conjecture for varieties over with many -rational points.
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@article{arxiv.1011.3424,
title = {Defining $\mathbb{Z}$ in $\mathbb{Q}$},
author = {Jochen Koenigsmann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.3424},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
New shorter proofs of Proposition 16 (a) and Corollary 23, improved presentation and many tiny corrections