Abstract
Motivated by a result of van der Poorten and Shparlinski for univariate power series, Bell and Chen prove that if a multivariate power series over a field of characteristic 0 0 is D-finite and its coefficients belong to a finite set, then it is a rational function. We extend and strengthen their results to certain power series whose coefficients may form an infinite set. We also prove that if the coefficients of a univariate D-finite power series “look like” the coefficients of a rational function, then the power series is rational. Our work relies on the theory of Weil heights, the Manin–Mumford theorem for tori, an application of the Subspace Theorem, and various combinatorial arguments involving heights, power series, and linear recurrence sequences.
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