Positive common-divisor growth conjecture in characteristic p

Let Fq\mathbb{F}_q be a finite field of characteristic pp, let E/Fq(T)E/\mathbb{F}_q(T) be an elliptic curve, and let P,QE(Fq(T))P,Q\in E(\mathbb{F}_q(T)) be nontorsion points. Positive common-divisor growth conjecture. There is a constant c=c(q,E,P,Q)>0c=c(q,E,P,Q)>0 such that

degGCD(nP,nQ)cn\deg\operatorname{GCD}(nP,nQ)\ge cn

for infinitely many n1n\ge1 with pnp\nmid n. This is proposed as the characteristic-pp analogue of the characteristic-zero common-divisor problem; the source does not claim a proof.

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Joseph H. Silverman, “Common Divisors of Elliptic Divisibility Sequences over Function Fields”, arXiv:math/0402016 (2004).

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