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Explicit Hilbert's Irreducibility Theorem in Function Fields

Number Theory 2019-12-12 v1

Abstract

We prove a quantitative version of Hilbert's irreducibility theorem for function fields: If f(T1,,Tn,X)f(T_1,\ldots, T_n,X) is an irreducible polynomial over the field of rational functions over a finite field Fq\mathbb{F}_q of characteristic pp, then the proportion of nn-tuples (t1,,tn)(t_1,\ldots, t_n) of monic polynomials of degree dd for which f(t1,,tn,X)f(t_1,\ldots, t_n,X) is reducible out of all nn-tuples of degree dd monic polynomials is O(dqd/2)O(dq^{-d/2}).

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@article{arxiv.1912.05162,
  title  = {Explicit Hilbert's Irreducibility Theorem in Function Fields},
  author = {Lior Bary-Soroker and Alexei Entin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.05162},
  year   = {2019}
}

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10 pages

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