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Finite Morphisms to Projective Space and Capacity Theory

Algebraic Geometry 2012-10-16 v2 Number Theory

Abstract

We study conditions on a commutative ring R which are equivalent to the following requirement; whenever X is a projective scheme over S = Spec(R) of fiber dimension \leq d for some integer d \geq 0, there is a finite morphism from X to P^d_S over S such that the pullbacks of coordinate hyperplanes give prescribed subschemes of X provided these subschemes satisfy certain natural conditions. We use our results to define a new kind of capacity for adelic subsets of projective schemes X over global fields. This capacity can be used to generalize the converse part of the Fekete-Szeg\H{o} Theorem.

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@article{arxiv.1201.0678,
  title  = {Finite Morphisms to Projective Space and Capacity Theory},
  author = {Ted Chinburg and Laurent Moret-Bailly and Georgios Pappas and Martin Taylor},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1201.0678},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

16 pages, major revision following referee's report. In particular, the finite morphism capacity has been redefined and is now compared with the sectional capacity

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