A repulsion motif in Diophantine equations

DOI10.4169/AMER.MATH.MONTHLY.118.07.584MaRDI QIDQ3174572zbMATH OpenOpenAlexDBLPWikidataFDO

Authors Graham Everest, Thomas B. Ward

Publication date 17 October 2011

Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1005.0315, http://dro.dur.ac.uk/10032/1/10032.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

Diophantine equationsintegral points

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Elliptic curves over global fields (11G05) Rational points (14G05) Higher degree equations; Fermat's equation (11D41)

Abstract: Problems related to the existence of integral and rational points on cubic curves date back at least to Diophantus. A significant step in the modern theory of these equations was made by Siegel, who proved that a non-singular plane cubic equation has only finitely many integral solutions. Examples show that simple equations can have inordinately large integral solutions in comparison to the size of their coefficients. A conjecture of Hall attempts to ameliorate this by bounding the size of integral solutions simply in terms of the coefficients of the defining equation. It turns out that a similar phenomenon seems, conjecturally, to be at work for solutions which are close to being integral in another sense. We describe these conjectures as an illustration of an underlying motif - repulsion - in the theory of Diophantine equations.

Recommendations

• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3339569
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 516951
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5851979
• Diophantine equations: The geometric approach
• Elliptic divisibility sequences and certain Diophantine equations

Describes a project that uses

Uses Software

• PARI/GP

This page was built for publication: A repulsion motif in Diophantine equations

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q3174572)