In other words, 10. Hilbert’s problem is unjustified.
Mathematicians hoped to apply the same approach to prove extended, the rings of the problem version-but they hit the hook.
Gumming Up the Works
Useful correspondence between Turing machines and diofantine equations falls apart when the equations may have non -internalrative solutions. For example, consider the equation again y = X2. If you work in the ring of integers, which contains √2, you will end up with novel solutions such as X = √2, y = 2. The equation no longer corresponds to the Turing machine, which calculates the perfect squares – and more generally diofantine equations can no longer encode the problem of stopping.
But in 1988 Sasha Shlapentokh I started playing with ideas on how to get around this problem. Until 2000, she and others formulated a plan. Let’s say you were supposed to add a few additional terms to the equation, such as y = X2 It’s magically forced X To be again an integer, even in a different number system. Then you can save correspondence with Turing machine. Can this be done for all diophantin equations? If so, it would mean that Hilbert’s problem can encode the problem of stopping in the novel numbers system.
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Over the years, Shlapentokh and other mathematicians realized what terms they had to add to the diophantin equations for various types of rings, which allowed them to show that Hilbert’s problem was still unjustified in these settings. Then they imported all other integers’ rings into one case: rings that include an imaginary number AND. Mathematicians have realized that in this case the terms they would have to add can be set using a special equation called an elliptical curve.
But the elliptical curve would have to satisfy two properties. First of all, it would have to have infinitely many solutions. Secondly, if you switched to another ring of integers – if you remove the imaginary number from the numerical system – then all the solutions of the elliptical curve would have to keep the same basic structure.
As it turned out, building such an elliptical curve that worked for each other ring was an extremely subtle and hard task. But coime and pagano – Experts on elliptical curves, who have worked closely since they were at a postgraduate school – simply a suitable set of tools to try.
Independent nights
Since the bachelor’s studies, Komans thought about the 10th problem of Hilbert. Throughout the school of studies and during cooperation with Pagano recalled it. “I spent a few days every year, thinking about it and got stuck terribly,” said Komans. “I would try three things and everyone blew in my face.”
In 2022, during a conference at Banff in Canada, he and Pagano talked about the problem. They hoped that together they could build a special elliptical curve needed to solve the problem. After the end of other projects, they started working.