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Perfect powers in polynomial power sums

Number Theory 2023-04-12 v1

Abstract

We prove that a non-degenerate simple linear recurrence sequence (Gn(x))n=0 (G_n(x))_{n=0}^{\infty} of polynomials satisfying some further conditions cannot contain arbitrary large powers of polynomials if the order of the sequence is at least two. In other words we will show that for m m large enough there is no polynomial h(x) h(x) of degree 2 \geq 2 such that (h(x))m (h(x))^m is an element of (Gn(x))n=0 (G_n(x))_{n=0}^{\infty} . The bound for m m depends here only on the sequence (Gn(x))n=0 (G_n(x))_{n=0}^{\infty} . In the binary case we prove even more. We show that then there is a bound C C on the index n n of the sequence (Gn(x))n=0 (G_n(x))_{n=0}^{\infty} such that only elements with index nC n \leq C can be a proper power.

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@article{arxiv.1912.10033,
  title  = {Perfect powers in polynomial power sums},
  author = {Clemens Fuchs and Sebastian Heintze},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.10033},
  year   = {2023}
}

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15 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1810.12141

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