On the finiteness of solutions for polynomial-factorial Diophantine equations

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Abstract: We study the Diophantine equations obtained by equating a polynomial and the factorial function, and prove the finiteness of integer solutions under certain conditions. For example, we show that there exists only finitely many l such that l! is represented {by} NA(x), where NA is a norm form constructed from the field norm of a field extension K/mathbfQ. We also deal with the equation NA(x)=l!S, where l!S is the Bhargava factorial. In this paper, we also show that the Oesterl'e-Masser conjecture implies that for any infinite subset S of mathbfZ and for any polynomial P(x)inmathbfZ[x] of degree 2 or more the equation P(x)=l!S has only finitely many solutions (x,l). For some special infinite subsets S of mathbfZ, we can show the finiteness of solutions for the equation P(x)=l!S unconditionally.


In this interesting paper the author studies the finiteness of the set of integer solutions of the Diophantine equation \[ F(x,y)=\Pi_{K}(l), \] where irreducible factors of \(F\) satisfies certain technical (but relatively weak) assumptions, \(K\) is a number field, \(\Pi_{K}(l)=\prod\mathfrak{R}\mathfrak{a}\) and the product is taken along ideals \(\mathfrak{a}\) satisfying \(\mathfrak{R}\mathfrak{a}\leq l\), where \(\mathfrak{R}\mathfrak{a}=\#\mathcal{O}_{K}/\mathfrak{a}\) and \(\mathcal{O}_{K}\) is the ring of integers of \(K\). Here \(\Pi_{K}(l)\) is the so called Bhargava factorial which is a generalization of the classical factorial. As an application, a finiteness result of Berend and Harmse concerning the number of integer solutions of the equation \(F(x,y)=l!\), where \(F\in\mathbb{Z}[x,y]\) is an irreducible homogeneous polynomial of degree 2, is reproved.











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