Thue Inequalities With Few Coefficients

Abstract: Let

F (x, y)

be a binary form with integer coefficients, degree

n g e q 3

and irreducible over the rationals. Suppose that only

s + 1

of the

n + 1

coefficients of

F

are nonzero. We show that the Thue inequality

| F (x, y) | l e q m

has

l l s m^{2 / n}

solutions provided that the absolute value of the discriminant

D (F)

of

F

is large enough. We also give a new upper bound for the number of solutions of

| F (x, y) | l e q m

, with no restriction on the discriminant of

F

that depends mainly on

s

and

m

, and slightly on

n

. Our bound becomes independent of

m

when

m < | D (F) |^{2 / (5 (n - 1))}

, and also independent of

n

if

| D (F) |

is large enough.

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