On function field Mordell–Lang and Manin–Mumford

Franck Benoist, Elisabeth Bouscaren, Anand Pillay
2016 Journal of Mathematical Logic  
We give a reduction of the function field Mordell-Lang conjecture to the function field Manin-Mumford conjecture, for abelian varieties, in all characteristics, via model theory, but avoiding recourse to the dichotomy theorems for (generalized) Zariski geometries. Additional ingredients include the "Theorem of the kernel", and a result of Wagner on commutative groups of finite Morley rank without proper infinite definable subgroups. In characteristic 0 the methods also yield another account of
more » ... he local modularity of A for A a traceless simple abelian variety. In positive characteristic, where the main interest lies, we require another result to make the strategy work: so-called quantifier-elimination for the corresponding A = p ∞ A(U) where U is a saturated separably closed field, which we prove in the last section.
doi:10.1142/s021906131650001x fatcat:lhyxcmli55cv7kzlco4rji22zm