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On a simple quartic family of Thue equations over imaginary quadratic number fields

Number Theory 2023-03-28 v1

Abstract

Let tt be any imaginary quadratic integer with t100|t|\geq 100. We prove that the inequality Ft(X,Y)=X4tX3Y6X2Y2+tXY3+Y41 |F_t(X,Y)| = | X^4 - t X^3 Y - 6 X^2 Y^2 + t X Y^3 + Y^4 | \leq 1 has only trivial solutions (x,y)(x,y) in integers of the same imaginary quadratic number field as tt. Moreover, we prove results on the inequalities Ft(X,Y)Ct|F_t(X,Y)| \leq C|t| and Ft(X,Y)t2ε|F_t(X,Y)| \leq |t|^{2 -\varepsilon}. These results follow from an approximation result that is based on the hypergeometric method. The proofs in this paper require a fair amount of computations, for which the code (in Sage) is provided.

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@article{arxiv.2303.15243,
  title  = {On a simple quartic family of Thue equations over imaginary quadratic number fields},
  author = {Benjamin Earp-Lynch and Bernadette Faye and Eva G. Goedhart and Ingrid Vukusic and Daniel P. Wisniewski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.15243},
  year   = {2023}
}

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