Fields with Two Incomparable Henselian Valuation Rings.
We make some observations relating the theory of finite-dimensional differential algebraic groups (the ∂₀-groups of [2]) to the Galois theory of linear differential equations. Given a differential field (K,∂), we exhibit a surjective functor from (absolutely) split (in the sense of Buium) ∂₀-groups G over K to Picard-Vessiot extensions L of K, such that G is K-split iff L = K. In fact we give a generalization to "K-good" ∂₀-groups. We also point out that the "Katz group" (a certain linear algebraic...
Let be a number field, its ring of integers, and be an irreducible polynomial. Hilbert’s irreducibility theorem gives infinitely many integral specializations such that is still irreducible. In this paper we study the set of those with reducible. We show that is a finite set under rather weak assumptions. In particular, previous results obtained by diophantine approximation techniques, appear as special cases of some of our results. Our method is different. We use elementary group...