An abcd theorem over function fields and applications

DOI10.24033/BSMF.2613MaRDI QIDQ2880697zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Pietro Corvaja, Umberto Zannier

Publication date 14 April 2012

Published in Bulletin de la Société Mathématique de France (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://smf4.emath.fr/en/Publications/Bulletin/139/html/smf_bull_139_437-454.php

zbMATH Keywords

abc conjecturecurves on algebraic surfacesfunction fieldsS-units

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exponential Diophantine equations (11D61) Elliptic curves over global fields (11G05)

Review text

In the paper under review, the authors give a lower bound for the number of distinct zeros of the sum \(1+u+v\), where \(u\) and \(v\) are rational functions which is sharp when \(u\) and \(v\) have few distinct zeros and poles compared to their degrees. Their main result sharpens the ``\(abcd\) theorem of Brownawell-Masser and Voloch in some cases which are sufficient to obtain new finiteness results for Diophantine equations with polynomials. The main tool is a prior result of the authors from [``Some cases on Vojta's conjecture on integral points over finite fields, J. Algebr. Geom. 17, No. 2, 295--333 (2008); addendum Asian J. Math. 14, No. 4, 581--584 (2010; Zbl 1221.11146)]. As applications, they obtain that the Fermat surface \(x^a+y^b+z^c=1\) contains only finitely many rational or elliptic curves when \(a\geq 10^4\) and \(c\geq 2\). They also obtain an interesting application to the so--called ``Diophantine \(k\)-tuples. Namely, if \(a,~b,~c\) are three distinct nonzero complex polynomials not all constant such that \(1+ab=x^p,~1+ac=y^q\) and \(1+bc=z^r\) with complex polynomials \(x,y,z\) and integers \(p,q,r\geq 864\), then after suitably permuting \(a,b,c\), we have \(c^2+1=0\) and \(a+b=2c\).

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