A classification of restrictive polynomial correspondences

Abstract

In this manuscript, we study a special class of correspondences on $\mathbb{P}^{1} \times \mathbb{P}^{1}$ given by a polynomial relation, say $P(z, w)$. We focus on what we call restrictive polynomial correspondence and characterise that it can be written as $P (z, w) = g_{1}(w) h_{1}(z) + \cdots + g_{\rho}(w) h_{\rho}(z)$, for some appropriate $\rho \in \mathbb{Z}_{+}$, where $g_{r}$ and $h_{r}$ are polynomials. In particular, when $\rho = 2$, we say $P$ is irreducible and observe that the equation $P(z, w) = 0$ can be rewritten as $R(z) = S(w)$, where $R$ and $S$ are rational maps of appropriate degree. Further, we also define an operation that, with the exception of degenerate cases, constructs a new irreducible restrictive polynomial correspondence from any two given irreducible restrictive polynomial correspondences.