English

Integral points on the complement of the branch locus of projections from hypersurfaces

Number Theory 2014-11-11 v1

Abstract

We study the integral points on PnD\mathbb P_ n\setminus D, where DD is the branch locus of a projection from an hypersurface in Pn+1\mathbb P_{n+1} to a hyperplane HPnH\simeq\mathbb P_n. In doing that we follow the approach proposed in a paper by Zannier but we prove a more general result that also gives a sharper bound that may lead to prove the finiteness of integral points and has more applications. The proofs we present in this paper are effective and they provide a way to actually construct a set containing all the integral points in question. Our results find a concrete application to Diophantine equations, more specifically to the problem of finding integral solutions to equations F(x0,,xn)=cF(x_0,\dots,x_n)=c, where cc is a given nonzero value and FF is a homogeneous form defining the branch locus DD.

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@article{arxiv.1411.2282,
  title  = {Integral points on the complement of the branch locus of projections from hypersurfaces},
  author = {Andrea Ciappi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.2282},
  year   = {2014}
}