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Sep 10 at 17:02 comment added Mohsen Shahriari (... continued) consider $ Y = ( Y _ 1 , Y _ 2 ) $ and $ P ( X , Y ) = ( Y _ 1 - Y _ 2 ) X ^ 2 + X $, and the infinitely many choices you can make for the values of $ Y $ to make the $ X ^ 2 $ term vanish. Is there a way around this problem in the multivariate case? Can one get more information about the set of suitable $ a $ (for example them being Zariski dense, as the wiki page suggests) to make the argument also work for the multivariate case?
Sep 10 at 17:02 comment added Mohsen Shahriari Since there are bars over the variables in the statement of the problem, I assume that the OP considers your $ Y $ as a (finite) sequence of variables. Unless $ Y $ is a single variable, I think that your argument is flawed, even if $ X $ is a single variable. The mere information that there are infinitely many $ a $'s for which $ P _ i ( X , a ) $ is irreducible does not imply that $ P _ i $ is of degree $ 1 $ in $ X $: (to be continued...)
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Oct 25, 2012 at 2:31 comment added Luke You are right. I have to change my question in the form P(Q(Y),Y)=0. Thank you!
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Oct 24, 2012 at 16:02 history answered Laurent Berger CC BY-SA 3.0