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The Hilbert-Schinzel specialization property

Number Theory 2021-11-29 v2

Abstract

We establish a version "over the ring" of the celebrated Hilbert Irreducibility Theorem. Given finitely many polynomials in k+nk+n variables, with coefficients in Z\mathbb Z, of positive degree in the last nn variables, we show that if they are irreducible over Z\mathbb Z and satisfy a necessary "Schinzel condition", then the first kk variables can be specialized in a Zariski-dense subset of Zk{\mathbb Z}^k in such a way that irreducibility over Z{\mathbb Z} is preserved for the polynomials in the remaining nn variables. The Schinzel condition, which comes from the Schinzel Hypothesis, is that, when specializing the first kk variables in Zk{\mathbb Z}^k, the product of the polynomials should not always be divisible by some common prime number. Our result also improves on a "coprime" version of the Schinzel Hypothesis: under some Schinzel condition, coprime polynomials assume coprime values. We prove our results over many other rings than Z\mathbb Z, e.g. UFDs and Dedekind domains for the last one.

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@article{arxiv.2009.07254,
  title  = {The Hilbert-Schinzel specialization property},
  author = {Arnaud Bodin and Pierre Dèbes and Joachim König and Salah Najib},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.07254},
  year   = {2021}
}

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21 pages

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