Many solutions to the \(S\)-unit equation \(a+1=c\) (Q2300119)

Connecting to and improving the corresponding results from the literature, the author shows that for all \(s\), there exists a set \(S\) of \(s\) primes such that the equation \(a+1=c\) has \(\gg \exp(s^{1/4}/\log s)\) solutions where all prime factors of \(ac\) lie in \(S\). In the proof, among other things, tools from combinatorial and analytic number theory are combined.