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DIOPHANTINE EQUATIONS FOR POLYNOMIALS WITH RESTRICTED COEFFICIENTS, I (POWER VALUES)

Part of: Diophantine equations Algebraic number theory: global fields

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2022

LAJOS HAJDU Open the ORCID record for LAJOS HAJDU [Opens in a new window]  and
NÓRA VARGA Open the ORCID record for NÓRA VARGA [Opens in a new window]
LAJOS HAJDU
Affiliation:
Institute of Mathematics, University of Debrecen, P.O. Box 400, H-4002 Debrecen, Hungary and Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest P.O. Box 127, H-1364, Hungary e-mail: hajdul@science.unideb.hu, hajdu@renyi.hu
NÓRA VARGA*
Affiliation:
Institute of Mathematics, University of Debrecen, P.O. Box 400, H-4002 Debrecen, Hungary and MTA-DE Research Group ‘Equations, Functions and Curves’, Eötvös Loránd Research Network (ELKH), Hungary
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e-mail: nvarga@science.unideb.hu
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Abstract

We give effective finiteness results for the power values of polynomials with coefficients composed of a fixed finite set of primes; in particular, of Littlewood polynomials.

Keywords

integers composed of fixed primespolynomials with restricted coefficientshyperelliptic and superelliptic Diophantine equationsthe Schinzel–Tijdeman equation

MSC classification

Primary: 11D41: Higher degree equations; Fermat's equation
Secondary: 11R09: Polynomials (irreducibility, etc.)

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Research Article
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Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 106 , Issue 2 , October 2022 , pp. 254 - 263
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© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc.

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Footnotes

Dedicated to the memory of Andrzej Schinzel

Research supported in part by the Eötvös Loránd Research Network (ELKH), by the NKFIH grants 115479, 128088 and 130909, and the project EFOP-3.6.1-16-2016-00022 co-financed by the European Union and the European Social Fund.

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