A repulsion motif in Diophantine equations

DOI10.4169/AMER.MATH.MONTHLY.118.07.584zbMATH Open1270.11058DBLPjournals/tamm/EverestW11arXiv1005.0315OpenAlexW3098259780WikidataQ58150570 ScholiaQ58150570MaRDI QIDQ3174572FDOQ3174572

Graham Everest, Thomas B. Ward

Publication date: 17 October 2011

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

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.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1005.0315

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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)

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