$\mathbb Q\setminus\mathbb Z$ is diophantine over $\mathbb Q$ with $7$ unknowns
Number Theory
2026-07-30 v1 Logic
Abstract
In 2016 J. Koenigsmann proved that is diophantine over , i.e., there is a polynomial such that for any rational number we have In this paper we show that we may take which improves the previous record obtained by Daans in 2024. (Actually we even extend this to any global field.) This, together with a previous result of Z.-W. Sun, implies that there is no algorithm to decide for any whether
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@article{arxiv.2607.28606,
title = {$\mathbb Q\setminus\mathbb Z$ is diophantine over $\mathbb Q$ with $7$ unknowns},
author = {Zhi-Wei Sun},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.28606},
year = {2026}
}
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19 pages