A modular approach to cubic Thue-Mahler equations

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Abstract: Let h(x,y) be a non-degenerate binary cubic form with integral coefficients, and let S be an arbitrary finite set of prime numbers. By a classical theorem of Mahler, there are only finitely many pairs of relatively prime integers x,y such that h(x,y) is an S-unit. In the present paper, we reverse a well known argument, which seems to go back to Shafarevich, and use the modularity of elliptic curves over mathbbQ to give upper bounds for the number of solutions of such a Thue-Mahler equation. In addition, our methods gives an effective method for determining all solutions, and we use Cremona's Elliptic Curve Database to give a wide range of numerical examples.









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