arXiv · 1211.4963
On Profinite Hyperbolicity and Diophantine Geometry
Abstract
In this note, we explore the notion of hyperbolicity of topologically finitely generated profinite groups. Some applications to diophantine geometry are suggested and we try to reformulate certain problems in diophantine geometry in terms of hyperbolic profinite groups. Then, we introduce many occasions in which Galois groups are free profinite and try to explore implications of this condition in the world of diophantine geometry. In particular, we prove that, Grothendieck's "section conjecture" plus Shafarevich's "freeness conjecture" imply that hyperbolic curves have infinitely many solutions over the maximal abelian extension of a global field. This makes Mordell's conjecture, which was proved by Faltings, more interesting.
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Arash Rastegar. 2012-11-21. On Profinite Hyperbolicity and Diophantine Geometry. https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.4963
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