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Counting special points: Logic, diophantine geometry, and transcendence theory
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Abstract:

We expose a theorem of Pila and Wilkie on counting rational points in sets definable in o-minimal structures and some applications of this theorem to problems in diophantine geometry due to Masser, Peterzil, Pila, Starchenko, and Zannier.
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Additional Information
  • Thomas Scanlon
  • Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, Evans Hall, Berkeley, California 94720-3840
  • MR Author ID: 626736
  • ORCID: 0000-0003-2501-679X
  • Email: scanlon@math.berkeley.edu
  • Received by editor(s): June 9, 2011
  • Published electronically: October 24, 2011
  • Additional Notes: Partially supported by NSF grants FRG DMS-0854998 and DMS-1001550. The author thanks M. Aschenbrenner, J. Pila, P. Tretkoff, and U. Zannier for their detailed comments about earlier versions of these notes.
  • © Copyright 2011 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 49 (2012), 51-71
  • MSC (2010): Primary 11G15, 03C64
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-2011-01354-4
  • MathSciNet review: 2869007