Friday 21 July 2006

nt.number theory - Polynomial bijection from $mathbb Qtimesmathbb Q$ to $mathbb Q$?

Jonas Meyer's answer:



Quote from arxiv.org/abs/0902.3961, Bjorn Poonen, Feb. 2009: "Harvey Friedman asked whether there exists a polynomial $f(x,y)in Q[x,y]$ such that the induced map $Q × Qto Q$ is injective. Heuristics suggest that most sufficiently complicated polynomials should do the trick. Don Zagier has speculated that a polynomial as simple as $x^7+3y^7$ might already be an example. But it seems very difficult to prove that any polynomial works. Our theorem gives a positive answer conditional on a small part of a well-known conjecture." – Jonas Meyer

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