The noncircular indexed F. K. Schmidt argument #
The degree-index argument must not assume that the constant extension already has divisor-degree index one. This file repairs that dependency: both the original zeta series and the zeta series after extending constants are allowed to have indexed denominators.
After substituting T ^ d into the extended indexed denominator, clearing
denominators gives
P_extended(T ^ d) D_d(T) ^ d = P(T) ^ d D_(d e)(T).
Here d is the original degree index and e is the (a priori arbitrary)
degree index after constant extension. If d > 1, the derivative at T = 1
of the left side vanishes to order at least two. The right side has a simple
zero there when P(1) ≠ 0. This contradiction proves d = 1 without
assuming the conclusion for the constant extension.
Substituting T ^ d into an indexed denominator over the degree-d
constant extension multiplies its index by d.
Clearing two indexed rational forms across a degree-d constant
extension. In particular, no ordinary rational form is assumed for the
extended curve.
The indexed denominator has a simple zero at T = 1; this is its exact
derivative there.
Over a nontrivial finite field, every positive-index zeta denominator has
a nonzero derivative at T = 1.
At T = 1, a product containing at least two copies of the indexed
denominator has zero derivative.
At T = 1, differentiating a numerator times one indexed denominator
leaves the numerator value times the derivative of that denominator.
Pure polynomial form of the noncircular F. K. Schmidt conclusion.
Noncircular formal F. K. Schmidt theorem. The extended zeta series may
have any positive degree index e; only indexed rationality is required.