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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2022

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

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.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 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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