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Specializations of indecomposable polynomials

Commutative Algebra 2014-02-26 v1 Algebraic Geometry Number Theory Rings and Algebras

Abstract

We address some questions concerning indecomposable polynomials and their behaviour under specialization. For instance we give a bound on a prime pp for the reduction modulo pp of an indecomposable polynomial P(x)\Zz[x]P(x)\in \Zz[x] to remain indecomposable. We also obtain a Hilbert like result for indecomposability: if f(t1,...,tr,x)f(t_1,...,t_r,x) is an indecomposable polynomial in several variables with coefficients in a field of characteristic p=0p=0 or p>deg(f)p>\deg(f), then the one variable specialized polynomial f(t1+α1x,...,tr+αrx,x)f(t_1^\ast+\alpha_1^\ast x,...,t_r^\ast+\alpha_r^\ast x,x) is indecomposable for all (t1,...,tr,α1,...,αr)kˉ2r(t_1^\ast, ..., t_r^\ast, \alpha_1^\ast, ...,\alpha_r^\ast)\in \bar k^{2r} off a proper Zariski closed subset.

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@article{arxiv.1103.1825,
  title  = {Specializations of indecomposable polynomials},
  author = {Arnaud Bodin and Guillaume Chéze and Pierre Débes},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.1825},
  year   = {2014}
}
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