Analytic Ax–Schanuel for semi-abelian varieties and Nevanlinna theory

Abstract

Let $A$ be a semi-abelian variety with an exponential map $\exp : \mathop{\mathrm{Lie}}(A) \to A$. The purpose of this paper is to explore Nevanlinna theory of the entire curve $\hskip1pt{\widehat{\mathrm{exp}}}\hskip2pt f := (\exp f, f) : \mathbf{C} \to A \times \mathop{\mathrm{Lie}}(A)$ associated with an entire curve $f : \mathbf{C} \to \mathop{\mathrm{Lie}}(A)$. Firstly we give a Nevanlinna theoretic proof to the analytic Ax–Schanuel Theorem for semi-abelian varieties, which was proved by J. Ax 1972 in the case of formal power series (Ax–Schanuel Theorem). We assume some non-degeneracy condition for $f$ such that the elements of the vector-valued function $f(z) - f(0) \in \mathop{\mathrm{Lie}}(A) \cong \mathbf{C}^n$ are $\mathbf{Q}$-linearly independent in the case of $A = (\mathbf{C}^*)^n$. Our proof is based on the Log Bloch–Ochiai Theorem and a key estimate which we show.

Our next aim is to establish a Second Main Theorem for $\hskip1pt{\widehat{\mathrm{exp}}}\hskip2pt f$ and its $k$-jet lifts with truncated counting functions at level one. We give some applications to a problem of a type raised by S. Lang and the unicity. The results clarify a relationship between the problems of Ax–Schanuel type and Nevanlinna theory.