The Mordell-Lang conjecture for function fields
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Abstract:
We give a proof of the geometric Mordell-Lang conjecture, in any characteristic. Our method involves a model-theoretic analysis of the kernel of Manin’s homomorphism and of a certain analog in characteristic $p$.References
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Additional Information
- Ehud Hrushovski
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2-277, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
- Address at time of publication: Department of Mathematics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
- Email: ehud@math.mit.edu
- Received by editor(s): September 1, 1993
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: November 1, 1994
- Additional Notes: The author was supported by the National Science Foundation
- © Copyright 1996 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: J. Amer. Math. Soc. 9 (1996), 667-690
- MSC (1991): Primary 03C45, 11G10; Secondary 03C60, 14G05, 12H05
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0894-0347-96-00202-0
- MathSciNet review: 1333294