Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4588769 Journal of Algebra 2007 28 Pages PDF
Abstract

We prove that a relation over Fq[Z] is recursively enumerable if and only if it is Diophantine over Fq[W,Z]. We do this by first constructing a model of N in Fq[Z], where n is represented by Zn. In a second step, we show that it suffices to eliminate a bounded universal quantifier. Then finally, the hardest part of the proof is to show that we can eliminate this quantifier.

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Physical Sciences and Engineering Mathematics Algebra and Number Theory