Janós Kollár
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We consider diophantine subsets of function fields of curves and show, roughly speaking, that they are either very small or very large. In particular, this implies that the ring of polynomials $k[t]$ is a not a diophantine subset of the field of rational functions $k(t)$ for many fields $k$.
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We consider diophantine subsets of function fields of curves and show, roughly speaking, that they are either very small or very large. In particular, this implies that the ring of polynomials $k[t]$ is a not a diophantine subset of the field of rational functions $k(t)$ for many fields $k$.
Key concepts: Diophantine equation, Function field, Mathematics, Function (biology), Diophantine set, Ring (chemistry), Diophantine approximation, Diophantine geometry