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Zeroes and rational points of analytic functions

Algebraic Geometry 2017-12-19 v2 Number Theory

Abstract

For an analytic function f(z)=k=0akzkf(z)=\sum_{k=0}^\infty a_kz^k on a neighbourhood of a closed disc DCD\subset {\bf C}, we give assumptions, in terms of the Taylor coefficients aka_k of ff, under which the number of intersection points of the graph Γf\Gamma_f of fDf_{\vert D} and algebraic curves of degree dd is polynomially bounded in dd. In particular, we show these assumptions are satisfied for random power series, for some explicit classes of lacunary series, and for solutions of linear differential equations with coefficients in Q[z]{\bf Q}[z]. As a consequence, for any function ff in these families, Γf\Gamma_f has less than βlogαT\beta \log^\alpha T rational points of height at most TT, for some α,β>0\alpha, \beta >0.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1608.02455,
  title  = {Zeroes and rational points of analytic functions},
  author = {Georges Comte and Yosef Yomdin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.02455},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

To appear in Ann. Inst. Fourier (Grenoble). This is the last version as accepted by the journal

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