FAMILIES OF THUE EQUATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH A RANK ONE SUBGROUP OF THE UNIT GROUP OF A NUMBER FIELD

Abstract: Twisting a binary form

F_{0} (X, Y) i n m a t h b b Z [X, Y]

of degree

d g e 3

by powers

u p s i l o n^{a}

(

a i n m a t h b b Z

) of an algebraic unit

u p s i l o n

gives rise to a binary form

F_{a} (X, Y) i n m a t h b b Z [X, Y]

. More precisely, when

K

is a number field of degree

d

,

s i g m a_{1}, s i g m a_{2}, d o t s, s i g m a_{d}

the embeddings of

K

into

m a t h b b C

,

a l p h a

a nonzero element in

K

,

a_{0} i n m a t h b b Z

,

a_{0} > 0

and

F_0(X,Y)=a_0displaystyleprod_{i=1}^d (X-sigma_i(alpha) Y),

then for

a i n m a t h b b Z

we set

F_a(X,Y)=displaystyle a_0prod_{i=1}^d (X-sigma_i(alphaupsilon^a) Y).

Given

m g e 0

, our main result is an effective upper bound for the solutions

(x, y, a) i n {m a t h b b Z}^{3}

of the Diophantine inequalities

0<|F_a(x,y)|le m

for which

x y o t = 0

and

m a t h b b Q (a l p h a u p s i l o n^{a}) = K

. Our estimate involves an effectively computable constant depending only on

d

; it is explicit in terms of

m

, in terms of the heights of

F_{0}

and of

u p s i l o n

, and in terms of the regulator of the number field

K

.

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