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Number of integers represented by families of binary forms III: fewnomials

Number Theory 2025-09-11 v1

Abstract

In a series of papers we investigated the following question: given a family \calF\calF of binary forms having nonzero discriminant and integer coefficients, for each d3d\geqslant 3, we estimate the number of integers mm with mN|m|\leqslant N which are represented by an element in \calF\calF of degree d\geqslant d. Under suitable assumptions, asymptotically as NN\to\infty, the main term in the estimate is given by the forms in \calF\calF having degree dd (if any), while the forms of degree >d>d contribute only to the error term. The present text is devoted to fewnomials a0Xkr+a1Xk(r1)Yk++ar1XkYk(r1)+arYkr a_0X^{kr}+a_1X^{k(r-1)}Y^k+\cdots +a_{r-1}X^kY^{k(r-1)}+a_rY^{kr} with fixed r1r\geqslant 1 and varying k,a0,a1,,ark,a_0,a_1,\dots,a_r.

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@article{arxiv.2509.08335,
  title  = {Number of integers represented by families of binary forms III: fewnomials},
  author = {Etienne Fouvry and Michel Waldschmidt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.08335},
  year   = {2025}
}

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