Contributions to a conjecture of Mueller and Schmidt on Thue inequalities

Abstract: Let

F (X, Y) = s u m l i m i t s_{i = 0}^{s} a_{i} X^{r_{i}} Y^{r - r_{i}} i n m a t h b b Z [X, Y]

be a form of degree

r = r_{s} g e q 3

, irreducible over

m a t h b b Q

and having at most

s + 1

non-zero coefficients. Mueller and Schmidt showed that the number of solutions of the Thue inequality [ |F(X,Y)|leq h ] is

l l s^{2} h^{2 / r} (1 + l o g h^{1 / r})

. They

e x t i t c o n j e c t u r e d

that

s^{2}

may be replaced by

s

. Let [ Psi = max_{0leq ileq s} maxleft( sum_{w=0}^{i-1}frac{1}{r_i-r_w},sum_{w= i+1}^{s}frac{1}{r_w-r_i} ight). ] Then we show that

s^{2}

may be replaced by

m a x (s l o g^{3} s, s e^{P s i})

. We also show that if

| a_{0} | = | a_{s} |

and

| a_{i} | l e q | a_{0} |

for

1 l e q i l e q s - 1

, then

s^{2}

may be replaced by

s l o g^{3 / 2} s

. In particular, this is true if

a_{i} i n - 1, 1

.

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