On Coincidences Among Quadratic Fields Generated by the Shanks Sequence

DOI10.1093/QMATH/HAW054zbMATH Open1427.11111arXiv1602.06473OpenAlexW2565291909MaRDI QIDQ4588457FDOQ4588457

Igor E. Shparlinski, William D. Banks

Publication date: 26 October 2017

Published in: The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $g>1$ be an integer and $f(X)inmathbbZ[X]$ a polynomial of positive degree with no multiple roots, and put $u(n)=f(g^n)$. In this note, we study the sequence of quadratic fields $mathbbQ(sqrtu(n),)$ as $n$ varies over the consecutive integers $M+1,ldots,M+N$. Fields of this type include Shanks fields and their generalizations. Using the square sieve together with new bounds on character sums, we improve an upper bound of Luca and Shparlinski (2009) on the number of $ninM+1,ldots,M+N$ with $mathbbQ(sqrtu(n),)=mathbbQ(sqrts,)$ for a given squarefree integer $s$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.06473

zbMATH Keywords

quadratic fieldsJacobi symbolsShanks fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quadratic extensions (11R11) Counting solutions of Diophantine equations (11D45) Estimates on character sums (11L40) Applications of sieve methods (11N36)

Cited In (2)

• On quadratic fields generated by polynomials
• On sparsity of representations of polynomials as linear combinations of exponential functions

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