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On Thue’s equation. (English) Zbl 0614.10018
In this very interesting paper the authors consider the number N(F,h) of solutions of Thue’s equation $$F(x,y)=h$$ in integers x,y$$\in {\mathbb{Z}}$$ with $$(x,y)=1$$. Here, $$F\in {\mathbb{Z}}[x,y]$$ is a binary form of degree $$r\geq 3$$ and h is fixed. In 1983 J. H. Evertse was the first to give a bound for N(F,h) depending only on r and h, but independent of the coefficients of F. The dependence on r is of the form $$\exp (r^ 2)$$. In the present paper the authors give a vast improvement of Evertse’s theorem. They show $$N(F,h)<c_ 1r^{1+t}$$, where t is the number of distinct prime divisors of h and $$c_ 1$$ is some computable constant which is $$<215$$ if r is big enough. In case $$h=1$$ this bound is optimal in its dependence on r, since $$x^ r+(y-x)(y-2x)...(y-rx)=1$$ obviously has at least r solutions.
The proof starts with the case $$h=1$$ and then, by induction on t, is extended to general h. To bound the number of large solutions the classical Thue-Siegel method is used. For the small solutions the authors first split the original problem in a union of Thue equations with large discriminant and then use some ingenious proximity arguments to finish the proof.
Reviewer: F.Beukers

##### MSC:
 11D41 Higher degree equations; Fermat’s equation
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