\(S\)-parts of values of univariate polynomials (Q2308840)

Let \(S = {p_1,\dots, p_s}\) be a finite non-empty set of distinct prime numbers, let \(f \in \mathbb{Z}[X]\) be a polynomial od degree \(n \geq 1\), and let \(S'\subseteq S\) be the subset of all \(p \in S\) such that \(f\) has a root in \(\mathbb{Z}_p\). The author of this article proves two theorems about \(f\)-normalized \(S\)-part of a non-zero integer \(y\). In the proofs of those two theorems (Theorems I and II), the author makes use of two main technical tools. The first one is a formula, which is derived in section 2, for the Igusa local zeta functions of univariate polynomials. Such formula is, in fact, a special case of a formula given by Igusa. However, in the case of univariate polynomials lots of technicalities can be avoided, and a fairly explicit formula can be obtained by direct computation. The second tool is a careful asymptotic analysis of power sums indexed over sets of a specific form. Section 3 is dedicated to the development of such tool. The techniques in this paper can be adapted to the similar problems considered in the context of decomposable forms. This leads to significant improvements on the corresponding results.