A separating coordinate shear for affine plane curves #
This file formalizes the invertible linear change of variables
(x, y) ↦ (x, x + y). If the first partial derivative of f vanishes but
the second does not, the transformed equation has both partial derivatives
nonzero. The shear preserves affine point counts and geometric
irreducibility, including after extension to an algebraic closure.
The case in which both partial derivatives vanish is deliberately not hidden
here: over a finite field it requires the separate characteristic-p
argument that an absolutely irreducible nonconstant polynomial cannot be a
polynomial in x^p and y^p.
Divide every exponent of a multivariate monomial by p. On the
support of a polynomial whose partial derivatives vanish in characteristic
p, this is an exact inverse to multiplication of exponents by p.
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- BGS.HasseWeil.divideExponents p m = Finsupp.mapRange (fun (n : ℕ) => n / p) ⋯ m
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In characteristic p, every exponent occurring in a variable with
vanishing partial derivative is divisible by p.
Over a perfect field of positive characteristic, a multivariate
polynomial with every partial derivative zero is a p-th power.
Hence a polynomial with every partial derivative zero cannot be
irreducible over a perfect field of characteristic p.
The substitution (x, y) ↦ (x, x + y).
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The inverse substitution (x, y) ↦ (x, y - x).
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The algebra map substituting the sum of the two coordinates for the second coordinate.
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The algebra map undoing the shear of the second coordinate.
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The polynomial automorphism induced by (x, y) ↦ (x, x + y).
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The corresponding bijection of affine points.
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Chain rule in the first coordinate for the shear.
Chain rule in the second coordinate for the shear.
If only the second coordinate is separating, the shear makes both coordinates separating.
The shear commutes with extension of coefficients.
The symmetric substitution (x, y) ↦ (x + y, y).
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The inverse symmetric substitution (x, y) ↦ (x - y, y).
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The algebra map shearing the first coordinate by the second.
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The algebra map undoing the shear of the first coordinate.
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The polynomial automorphism induced by (x, y) ↦ (x + y, y).
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The symmetric shear on affine points.
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Chain rule in the first coordinate for the symmetric shear.
Chain rule in the second coordinate for the symmetric shear.
If only the first coordinate is separating, the symmetric shear makes both coordinates separating.
The symmetric shear commutes with extension of coefficients.
Absolute irreducibility is invariant under the coordinate shear.
Absolute irreducibility is invariant under the symmetric shear.
An absolutely irreducible bivariate polynomial over a field of positive
characteristic cannot have both partial derivatives zero. The proof passes
to the algebraic closure, where perfectness turns simultaneous vanishing
into a p-th power.
For an absolutely irreducible plane polynomial over a finite field, either both coordinates already separate or one of the two elementary shears makes both partial derivatives nonzero.
The shear bijects the affine zero sets before and after substitution.
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The symmetric shear bijects the affine zero sets.