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Effective results for hyper- and superelliptic equations over number fields

Number Theory 2023-09-19 v1

Abstract

We consider hyper- and superelliptic equations f(x)=bymf(x)=by^m with unknowns x,y from the ring of S-integers of a given number field K. Here, f is a polynomial with S-integral coefficients of degree n with non-zero discriminant and b is a non-zero S-integer. Assuming that n>2 if m=2 or n>1 if m>2, we give completely explicit upper bounds for the heights of the solutions x,y in terms of the heights of f and b, the discriminant of K, and the norms of the prime ideals in S. Further, we give a completely explicit bound C such that f(x)=bymf(x)=by^m has no solutions in S-integers x,y if m>C, except if y is 0 or a root of unity. We will apply these results in another paper where we consider hyper- and superelliptic equations with unknowns taken from an arbitrary finitely generated integral domain of characteristic 0.

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@article{arxiv.1301.7168,
  title  = {Effective results for hyper- and superelliptic equations over number fields},
  author = {Attila Bérczes and Jan-Hendrik Evertse and Kálmán Györy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.7168},
  year   = {2023}
}

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31 pages

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