Abstract
Let K be a finite field, K(x) be the field of rational functions in x over K and
1. Introduction
1.1. The field of formal power series over a finite field
Let K be a finite field with q elements. We denote the ring of polynomials in x with coefficients from K by K[x], the quotient field of K[x] by K(x) and the degree of a non-zero polynomial f(x) in K[x] by deg(f). A non-Archimedean absolute value | · | is defined on K(x) by setting
where f(x) and g(x) are non-zero polynomials in K[x]. The field
where an ∈ K (n = r, r +1, …) with ar ≠ 0 and r is the rational integer such that |ξ| = q−r.
An element of
Let P(y) = f0 + f1y + ⋯ + fnyn be a non-zero polynomial in y over K[x]. (Note that fi ∈ K[x] for i = 0, 1, …, n.) We denote the degree of P(y) with respect to y by deg(P) and the height of P(y) by H(P), where H(P) = max {|f0|, …, |fn|}. Let α be an algebraic formal power series and P(y) be its minimal polynomial over K[x]. Then the height H(α) and the degree deg(α) of α are defined by H(P) and deg(P), respectively. Moreover, the roots of P(y) are said to be the conjugates of α over K (x). We refer the reader to Sprindžuk [16] for detailed information on
1.2. Mahler’s classification of formal power series over a finite field
In 1932, Mahler [9] introduced a classification of complex numbers. He divided complex numbers into four disjoint classes and called the numbers in these classes A-, S-, T- and U-numbers. Two algebraically dependent complex numbers belong to the same class. The class of A-numbers coincides with the set of complex algebraic numbers. Almost all complex numbers, in the sense of Lebesgue measure on
Let p be a prime number. The field
In 1978, Bundschuh [3] introduced a classification in
Let
We denote by μ(ξ) the smallest integer n such that wn(ξ) = ∞ if such an integer exists and write μ(ξ) = ∞ otherwise. Then ξ is said to be
an A-number if w(ξ) = 0 and μ(ξ) = ∞,
an S-number if 0 < w(ξ) < ∞ and μ(ξ) = ∞,
a T-number if w(ξ) = ∞ and μ(ξ) = ∞,
a U-number if w(ξ) = ∞ and μ(ξ) < ∞.
Furthermore, a U-number ξ is said to be a Um-number if μ(ξ) = m.
Recently, Ooto [11] contributed a lot to Mahler’s classification in
1.3. Construction of our main result
In 1979, Alnıaç1k [1: Chapter III, pp. 73–81] proved that under certain conditions rational and integral combinations with p-adic algebraic number coefficients of a p-adic U1-number are p-adic Um-numbers, where m is the degree of the p-adic algebraic number field, determined by these p-adic algebraic number coefficients. By this method, Alniaçik proved the existence of p-adic Um-numbers and gave the first explicit construction of such numbers. In the sense of this result and method of Alniaçik, we prove the following theorem. Our method heavily depends on the method given by Oryan [12: Satz 4 and Satz 5, pp. 57–62] to prove the existence of Um-numbers in
Theorem 1.1.
Letα0, …, αk (k ≥ 1) be algebraic formal power series withαk ≠ 0, and letξbe a U1-number enjoying such a representation
Thenα0 + α1ξ + ⋯ + αkξk is a Um-number, wheremis the degree ofK(x)(α0, …, αk) overK(x).
Remark 1.
By definition, as described in Subsection 1.2, a U1-number ξ in
where an(x), bn(x) are non-zero polynomials in K[x] with H(an(x)/bn(x)) > 1 for n = 1, 2, 3, … and
Remark 2.
Theorem 1.1 is the
We highlight the following consequence of Theorem 1.1.
Corollary 1.1.1.
Let
In the next section, we prepare and cite certain lemmas in order to prove Theorem 1.1. In Section 3, we prove Theorem 1.1 and establish explicit examples of Um-numbers.
2. Auxiliary results
We apply the following four lemmas to prove Theorem 1.1. Lemma 2.1 can be regarded as a
Lemma 2.1.
Letα0, …, αk(k ≥ 1) be algebraic formal power series withαk ≠ 0. Then for θ inK(x) the algebraic formal power seriesα0 + α1θ + … + αkθkis a primitive element ofK(x)(α0, …, αk) overK(x) except for only finitely many θinK(x).
Proof. We adapt the method of the proof of Lemma 5 in [1: Chapter I] to the field
and
Let us denote the degree of L over K(x) by m. If m = 1, then Lemma 2.1 obviously holds true. Hence, let us assume that m > 1. We denote by
From (2.1),
This gives
and hence
Since θ ∈ K(x), we have θ(s) = θ(t) = θ. Thus
If (2.1) were satisfied by infinitely many θ in K(x), then the last equality would turn to an identity and we would have
Let β be a primitive element of L over K(x). Then deg(β) = m and the field conjugates of β for L are distinct from each other. We have
where S(y0, y1, …, yk) is a rational function in y0, y1, …, yk with coefficients from K(x). Then we obtain
for ν = 1, 2, …, m. By (2.2), this would give us
But this is impossible since β is a primitive element of L. Therefore (2.1) can hold true for only finitely many θ in K(x). This completes the proof of Lemma 2.1.
Lemma 2.2.
(Oryan [12: Hilfssatz 4]). Let β1, …, βnbe in a finite extension of degree moverK(x). Then
In classical case, it is well-known that the inequality |β| ≤ H(β) + 1 holds for a complex algebraic number β, where H(β) denotes its usual height and | · | denotes the usual absolute value on
Lemma 2.3.
Let β be an algebraic formal power series. Then
Lemma 2.4 (Oryan [12], Hilfssatz 2).
LetP(y) andQ(y) be polynomials overK[x] with degreesn ≥ 1 andm ≥ 2, respectively. If the polynomialsP(y) andQ(y) are relatively prime overK[x] andα is a root of Q(y), then
3. Proof of Theorem 1.1
We write
where
It follows that
and
We put
We want to show that γ is a Um-number. Set
where
and
for n = 0, 1, 2, …. Let
Then, using (3.1), (3.2) and the property of non-Archimedean absolute value, that is, |α + β| ≤ max {|α|, |β|} holds for
Note that γn ∈ K(x)(α0, …, αk) for n = 0, 1, 2, …. We deduce from Lemma 2.1 that deg(γn) = m and further from Lemma 2.2, the fact H(ξn) = qun (n = 0, 1, 2, …) that
hold for sufficiently large n, where c0 is a real constant which depends only on m, q, k and the algebraic formal power series αi (i = 0, 1, …, k) with c0 > q.
We shall first show that γ is a U-number with μ(γ) ≤ m. Let An(y) = an0 + an1y + ⋯ + anmym be the minimal polynomial of γn over K[x]. Since An(γn) = 0, we have
where
It follows from Lemma 2.3, (3.2), (3.3) and (3.4) that
where c1 is a real constant with c0 < c1, thus from (3.2) that
and hence from (3.4) that
hold for sufficiently large n, where
Since ξ is a transcendental formal power series, note that An (γ) = An (R(ξ)) is not zero. The sequence
Letting j tend to infinity and observing that
For otherwise the sequence
Therefore we infer from (3.5) and H(γni) = H(Ani) (i = 0, 1, 2, …) that
for sufficiently large i. Since deg(Ani) = m, this implies that γ is a U-number with
Now we shall show that μ(γ) ≥ m. If m = 1, then μ(γ) ≥ m. Let m > 1 and B(y) = b0 + b1y + ⋯ + bgyg be any polynomial over K[x] with deg(B) = g and 1 ≤ g ≤ m – 1. Then, for any positive rational integer ν,
where
Similarly as in the previous paragraph, we obtain for sufficiently large ν
There exists a real constant c2 with 0 < c2 < 1 such that
and hence
hold for sufficiently large ν. Since deg(γν) = m, it follows that B(γν) ≠ 0. Thus, by Lemma 2.4 and (3.4), we have for sufficiently large ν
We choose two real numbers λ and η such that
and
The inequality
is verified for sufficiently large ν.
Let B(y) be a polynomial over K[x] with 1 ≤ deg(B) ≤ m – 1 and with sufficiently large height H(B). Let n be the unique positive rational integer satisfying
If
Then, by (3.10), we obtain |ρn||θn| < |B(γn)|. So, using the property of non-Archimedean absolute value, that is, |α + β| = max {|α|, |β|} is verified for
If
Then, by (3.11), we obtain |ρn+1||θn+1| < |B(γn+1)|. Hence,
We infer from (3.13) and (3.14) that
for all polynomials B(y) over K[x] with 1 ≤ deg(B) ≤ m – 1 and with sufficiently large height H(B). This implies that
By (3.6) and (3.15), we conclude that μ(γ) = m. Then γ = α0 + α1ξ + ⋯ + αkξk is a Um-number. This completes the proof of Theorem 1.1.
Remark 3.
Using Lemma 2.4 and (3.4), we can rewrite (3.9) exactly as
If we apply (3.16) in place of (3.9) in the proof of Theorem 1.1, then we see that
holds true for all polynomials B(y) over K[x] with 1 ≤ deg(B) ≤ m – 1 and with sufficiently large height H(B). This yields that
when m ≥ 2.
Remark 4.
Let us denote by
Remark 4 enables us to give the following example to illustrate Theorem 1.1.
Example 1.
Let m be any positive rational integer. In Theorem 1.1, let us take
Acknowledgement
The author would like to thank the referees for their helpful suggestions.
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