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Hilbert's Tenth Problem and Mazur's Conjectures in Complementary Subrings of Number Fields

Logic 2011-09-14 v2 Number Theory

Abstract

We show that Hilbert's Tenth Problem is undecidable for complementary subrings of number fields and that the p-adic and archimedean ring versions of Mazur's conjectures do not hold in these rings. More specifically, given a number field K, a positive integer t>1, and t nonnegative computable real numbers delta_1,..., delta_t whose sum is one, we prove that the nonarchimedean primes of K can be partitioned into t disjoint recursive subsets S_1,..., S_t of densities delta_1,..., delta_t, respectively such that Hilbert's Tenth Problem is undecidable for each corresponding ring O_{K,S_i}. We also show that we can find a partition as above such that each ring O_{K,S_i} possesses an infinite Diophantine set which is discrete in every topology of the field. The only assumption on K we need is that there is an elliptic curve of rank one defined over K.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1012.4878,
  title  = {Hilbert's Tenth Problem and Mazur's Conjectures in Complementary Subrings of Number Fields},
  author = {Kirsten Eisentraeger and Graham Everest and Alexandra Shlapentokh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1012.4878},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

21 pages; strengthened main theorems: proved main theorems for sets of nonnegative computable real densities; minor corrections

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