Solving discriminant form equations via unit equations

DOI10.1006/JSCO.1996.0018MaRDI QIDQ2563698zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors N. P. Smart

Publication date 10 August 1997

Published in Journal of Symbolic Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1006/jsco.1996.0018

zbMATH Keywords

resolution of unit equationssolving discriminant form equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Higher degree equations; Fermat's equation (11D41) Multiplicative and norm form equations (11D57) Algebraic number theory computations (11Y40)

Review text

By a theoretical result of Györy, the task of solving discriminant form equations is reduced to the resolution of unit equations in the normal closure of the number field \(K\) under consideration. The author combines refinements of earlier methods of himself with the action of the Galois group on the unit group to reduce the number of exponential variables in those unit equations. This enables him to solve discriminant form equations in number fields of higher degree in case the relative degree \([\Gamma:K]\) of the normal closure \(\Gamma\) of \(K\) is small. The method is illustrated by an example with \([K:\mathbb{Q}]=6\) and \([\Gamma:K]=3\).

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(11)

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• Solving index form equations in fields of degree 9 with cubic subfields
• The sums of exceptional units in a finite ring
• The discriminant of a system of equations
• On the sums of squares of exceptional units in residue class rings
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• SUMS OF POLYNOMIAL-TYPE EXCEPTIONAL UNITS MODULO
• On the sumsets of exceptional units in \(\mathbb {Z}_n\)
• On the sumsets of units and exceptional units in residue class rings
• Sums of two units in number fields
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