Integral points of small height outside of a hypersurface (Q2494351): Difference between revisions

The author proves an extension of Siegel's lemma, showing that in any sublattice \(\Omega\) of \(\mathbb Z^N\) there is an element \(P\) not lying in the union of finitely many given proper non-zero sublattices \(\Lambda_1,\dots,\Lambda_M\) of \(\Omega\), so that the height of \(P\) is bounded by a number, depending explicitly on \(\Omega\) and the \(\Lambda_i\)'s (it is stated also that a similar result holds in algebraic number fields, and will appear separately). Moreover it is proved that if \(F\) is a form in \(N\) variables of degree \(M\) with integral coefficients, then there exists \(P=(x_1,\dots,x_n)\in \mathbb Z^N\) such that \(f(P)\) is non-zero, and \(\sum_i| x_i| \) is bounded by \((1+M/2)\min\{N,(M+2)/4\}\). The main results are then applied to an analogue of the discrete version of Tarski's plank problem [Parametr 2, 310--314 (1932), per bibl.] (Note that the title of the journal in item [18] of the references is ``Parametr'', and not ``Odbitka z Parametru'', which means ``Reprint from Parametr'').