The Rational Function Analogue of a Question of Schur and Exceptionality of Permutation Representations.

GURALNICK, Robert M., Peter MÜLLER & Jan SAXL

ISBN 10: 0821832883 / ISBN 13: 9780821832882

Editore: American Mathematical Society, Providence, 2003

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Providence, AMS (2003). 4°. VII, 79 p. Pbck. (corners slightly bumped).- Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, 773.

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• Titolo: The Rational Function Analogue of a Question of Schur and Exceptionality of Permutation Representations.
• Editore: American Mathematical Society, Providence
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0821832883
• ISBN 13: 9780821832882
• Rilegatura: Softcover
• Condizione: Sehr gut

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In 1923 Schur considered the problem of which polynomials $f\in\mathbb{Z}[X]$ induce bijections on the residue fields $\mathbb{Z}/p\mathbb{Z}$ for infinitely many primes $p$. His conjecture, that such polynomials are compositions of linear and Dickson polynomials, was proved by M. Fried in 1970. Here we investigate the analogous question for rational functions, and also we allow the base field to be any number field. As a result, there are many more rational functions for which the analogous property holds. The new infinite series come from rational isogenies or endomorphisms of elliptic curves. Besides them, there are finitely many sporadic examples which do not fit in any of the series we obtain.The Galois theoretic translation, based on Chebotarev's density theorem, leads to a certain property of permutation groups, called exceptionality. One can reduce to primitive exceptional groups. While it is impossible to describe explicitly all primitive exceptional permutation groups, we provide certain reduction results, and obtain a classification in the almost simple case. The fact that these permutation groups arise as monodromy groups of covers of Riemann spheres $f:\mathbb{P}^1\to\mathbb{P}^1$, where $f$ is the rational function we investigate, provides genus $0$ systems.These are generating systems of permutation groups with a certain combinatorial property. This condition, combined with the classification and reduction results of exceptional permutation groups, eventually gives a precise geometric classification of possible candidates of rational functions which satisfy the arithmetic property from above. Up to this point, we make frequent use of the classification of the finite simple groups. Except for finitely many cases, these remaining candidates are connected to isogenies or endomorphisms of elliptic curves. Thus we use results about elliptic curves, modular curves, complex multiplication, and the techniques used in the inverse regular Galois problem to settle these finer arithmetic questions.