
doi: 10.2307/2375002
[For part I see ibid. 115, No. 6, 1385-1444 (1993; Zbl 0797.14016).] Let \({\mathcal F}\) be a differential field of characteristic zero with derivation \(\delta\), and let \({\mathcal C}\) be its field of constants. Assume that both fields are algebraically closed. In this paper, the author continues his studies of differential polynomial functions on schemes \(X\) over \({\mathcal F}\) and their applications to the theory of algebraic groups and in diophantine problems. The present paper studies smooth projective curves \(X\) defined over \({\mathcal F}\). The principal tools are two sequences of \(\delta\) regular maps from \(X\) to affine spaces \(\mathbb{A}^N\) over \({\mathcal F}\): the \(\delta\)-Lagrangian \(\varphi_d\) and the \(\delta\)-character map \(\psi_r\) (the dimension of the ranges are denoted \(N_d\) and \(M_r\) (respectively). -- Under the assumption that \(X\) does not descend to \({\mathcal C}\), the author proves that the \(\varphi_d\) are \(\delta\)-closed immersions (that is, come from a closed immersion \(X^\infty \mapsto (\mathbb{A}^N)^\infty\) for large \(d)\). If in addition \(X\) is nonhyperelliptic of \(\delta\)-rank \(g\) (the latter is defined to be the rank of the map \(H^0 (X, \omega) \to H^1 (X, {\mathcal O})\) defined by the cupproduct with the Kodaira-Spencer class \(\rho (\delta)\) coming from the Kodaira-Spencer map \(\rho : \text{Der}_{\mathcal C} ({\mathcal F}) \to H (X, \omega^{- 1})\), \(\omega\) being the canonical sheaf on \(X)\), then he proves that \(N_d = (g - 1) (d^2 - 1)\) for all \(d \geq 2\); that \(\varphi_2\) has finite fibres, and that \(\varphi_3\) is a \(\delta\)-closed immersion. -- Under the assumption that \(X\) is nonhyperelliptic (of genus \(g)\) which does not descend to \({\mathcal C}\), then for an integer \(r\) such that either \(r \geq g + 1\) or \(X\) has \(\delta\)-rank \(g\) and \(r \geq 2\) the author proves that \(\psi_r\) is a local \(\delta\)-immersion (that is, its \(\delta\) tangent map is injective) outside a finite set of points. This result in turn is a consequence of an infinitesimal analogue of Lang's conjecture which the author establishes. [For part III see ibid. 117, No. 1, 1-73 (1995; Zbl 0829.14020)].
Group schemes, derivation, differential field, algebraic groups, Differential algebra, Curves in algebraic geometry, differential polynomial functions on schemes
Group schemes, derivation, differential field, algebraic groups, Differential algebra, Curves in algebraic geometry, differential polynomial functions on schemes
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