The diophantine equation \((y+q_1)(y+q_2) \cdots (y+q_m) = f(x)\)
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title: The diophantine equation \((y+q_1)(y+q_2) \cdots (y+q_m) = f(x)\)
zbMATH Open document ID: 1374.11052
published in: Acta Mathematica Hungarica
publication date: 2017-03-31T00:00:00Z
review text: Consider the diophantine equation \[ (y + q_1)(y + q_2) \cdots (y + q_m) = a_0x^n + a_1x^{n-1}+ \cdots + a_n,\tag{1} \] where \(n, m\geq 2\), \(a_0, a_1, \ldots, a_n\), \(q_1,q_2,\ldots, q_m\) are fixed integers, and \(x\) and \(y\) are unknown integers. This equation has been studied in many papers. The aim of the author is to prove the following theorem. For any positive integers \(k, p_1, p_2 ,\ldots, p_m\) let \[ \lambda_k (p_1 ,\ldots, p_m) = \sum_{\substack{ i_1,\ldots,i_k\\ 1\leq i_1<\cdots<i_k\leq m}} p_{i_1} p_{i_2}\cdots p_{i_k} \] and \(\lambda_0(p_1,\ldots, p_m) = 1\). The function \(\lambda_k (p_1,\ldots, p_m)\) is called elementary symmetric polynomial. For the polynomial \(f(x) = x^m+a_1 x^{m-1}+ \cdots + a_m\) with positive integral coefficients, denote by \(\zeta(f (x)) \) the least positive integer such that \[ \zeta(f (x)) > \max\{\lambda_i (p_1 ,\ldots, p_m)- a_i, a_2, a_3, \ldots, a_m\} \] for all \(i\geq 2\), and all positive integers \(p_1, p_2, \ldots, p_m\) with \(a_1 = p_1 + p_2 +\ldots + p_m\). \textbf{Theorem 1.} Let \(m\geq 2, q_1, q_2 ,\ldots, q_m\) be positive integers with \(q_1, q_2 \ldots, q_m\) and let \(f(x) = x^m + a_1 x^{m-1} +\cdots + a_m\) be a monic polynomial of degree \(m\) with positive integer coefficients such that one root of \(f (x)\) is not an integer. Consider the binary diophantine equation \[ (y + q_1)(y + q_2)\cdots (y + q_m) = f (x).\tag{2} \] Then any positive integral solution \((x, y)\) of equation (2) satisfies \[ x < q_m + \zeta(f(x+q_m)) \] and \[ y < \max \{\zeta (f (x + q_m)), f (\zeta (f (x)))^{1/m}- q_1\}. \] To prove Theorem 1, the author needs to prove the following theorem: \textbf{Theorem 2.} Let \(f (x) = x^m + a_1 x^{m-1} + \cdots + a_m\) be a polynomial with positive integral coefficients. Then there exists a positive integer \(n\) such that \(n\geq\zeta(f(x))\), and \(f(n)\) can written as a product of at least \(m\) divisors which are greater than \(n\) if and only if all roots of \(f (x)\) are…
reviewed by: Péter Olajos
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 11D41
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 11D45
zbMATH DE Number: 6699131
zbMATH Keywords: monic polynomial
zbMATH Keywords: diophantine equation
author: S. Subburam
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
full work available at URL: s10474-015-0503-z
OpenAlex ID: W1207785664
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DOI: 10.1007/S10474-015-0503-Z
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6699131