English

Diophantine problems over tamely ramified fields

Algebraic Geometry 2022-10-17 v4 Logic Number Theory

Abstract

Assuming a certain form of resolution of singularities, we prove a general existential Ax-Kochen/Ershov principle for tamely ramified fields in all characteristics. This specializes to well-known results in residue characteristic 00 and unramified mixed characteristic. It also encompasses the conditional existential decidability results known for Fp( ⁣(t) ⁣)\mathbb{F}_p(\!(t)\!) and its finite extensions, due to Denef-Schoutens. On the other hand, it also applies to the setting of infinite ramification, providing us with an abundance of infinitely ramified extensions of Qp\mathbb{Q}_p and Fp( ⁣(t) ⁣)\mathbb{F}_p(\!(t)\!) that are existentially decidable.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2103.14646,
  title  = {Diophantine problems over tamely ramified fields},
  author = {Konstantinos Kartas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.14646},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

33 pages. Final version

R2 v1 2026-06-24T00:35:51.675Z