Integral points on convex curves (Q829779)

Let \(\Gamma\) be a strictly convex \(\mathcal{C}^{2}\) curve, defined as the image of a \(\mathcal{C}^{2}\) map \(V= (x,\ y)\) from \([0,1]\) to \(\mathbb{R}^{2}\), such that \(x'y''-x''y'\) never vanishes, where \(0\leq y'(0)\leq x'(0)\), so that \(w=w(\Gamma)=y'(0)/x'(0)\) also lies in \([0,1]\). Denote by \[r(t)=\frac{(x^{\prime\, 2}+y^{\prime\, 2})^{3/2}}{|x'y''-x''y'|}\] the radius of curvature of \(\Gamma\) at the point \((x(t),\ y(t))\), and set \[r=r(\displaystyle \Gamma)=\min_{t\in[0,1]}r(t),\] with \(\ell=\ell(\Gamma)\) the length of \(\Gamma\). In this present work the authors consider the classical problem of bounding the number of integer points \(N_{w,\ell,r}\) lying on \(\Gamma\), with the additional ``flat'' constraint that \(1\leq\ell\leq r\). Their main result says that there exist positive constants \(c_1\) and \(c_2\) satisfying \[c_1 \ (1+\min(\ell r^{-1/3},\ \ell\delta_{w,\ell\,{r}^{-1}}))\leq N_{w,\ell,r}\leq c_2\ (1+\min(\ell r^{-1/3},\ \ell\delta_{w,\ell\,{r}^{-1}})),\] where \( \delta_{w,x}=\min_{q\in \mathbb{N}}(qx+\Vert qw\Vert)\) for \(x>0.\) The arguments employed make use of Farey fractions and Farey tangents.