Introduction -- Diophantine classes: definitions and basic facts -- Diophantine equivalence and Diophantine decidability -- Integrality at finitely many primes and divisibility of order at infinitely many primes -- Bound equations for number fields and their consequences -- Units of rings of W-integers of norm 1 -- Diophantine classes over number fields -- Diophantine undecidability of function fields -- Bounds for function fields -- Diophantine classes over function fields -- Mazur's conjectures and their consequences -- Results of Poonen -- Beyond global fields -- Recursion (computability) theory -- Number theory
Summary
Hilbert's Tenth Problem - to find an algorithm to determine whether a polynomial equation in several variables with integer coefficients has integer solutions - was shown to be unsolvable in the late sixties. This book presents an account of results extending Hilbert's Tenth Problem to integrally closed subrings of global fields
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-316) and index
