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Asymptotics for Pillai's problem with polynomials

Number Theory 2025-06-05 v1

Abstract

Let a1(x)p1(x)n++ak(x)pk(x)n a_1(x)p_1(x)^n + \cdots + a_k(x)p_k(x)^n as well as b1(x)q1(x)m++bl(x)ql(x)m b_1(x)q_1(x)^m + \cdots + b_l(x) q_l(x)^m be two polynomial power sums where the complex polynomials pi(x) p_i(x) and qj(x) q_j(x) are all non-constant. Then in the present paper we will give an asymptotic for the number of pairs (n,m)N2 (n,m) \in \mathbb{N}^2 such that the degree of the sum of these two power sums is between 0 0 and d d when d d goes to infinity.

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@article{arxiv.2112.07367,
  title  = {Asymptotics for Pillai's problem with polynomials},
  author = {Sebastian Heintze},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.07367},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

5 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2111.05085

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