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On the Diophantine equation : Higher-order recurrences
Author(s):
Clemens
Fuchs;
Attila
Petho;
Robert
F.
Tichy
Journal:
Trans. Amer. Math. Soc.
355
(2003),
4657-4681.
MSC (2000):
Primary 11D45;
Secondary 11D04, 11D61, 11B37
Posted:
June 10, 2003
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Abstract:
Let be a field of characteristic and let be a linear recurring sequence of degree in defined by the initial terms and by the difference equation
with . Finally, let be an element of . In this paper we are giving fairly general conditions depending only on on , and on under which the Diophantine equation has only finitely many solutions . Moreover, we are giving an upper bound for the number of solutions, which depends only on . This paper is a continuation of the work of the authors on this equation in the case of second-order linear recurring sequences.
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Additional Information:
Clemens
Fuchs
Affiliation:
Institut für Mathematik, Technische Universität Graz, Steyrergasse 30, 8010 Graz, Austria
Email:
clemens.fuchs@tugraz.at
Attila
Petho
Affiliation:
Institute for Mathematics and Informatics, University of Debrecen, H-4010 Debrecen, PO Box 12, Hungary
Email:
pethoe@math.klte.hu
Robert
F.
Tichy
Affiliation:
Institut für Mathematik, Technische Universität Graz, Steyrergasse 30, 8010 Graz, Austria
Email:
tichy@tugraz.at
DOI:
10.1090/S0002-9947-03-03325-7
PII:
S 0002-9947(03)03325-7
Keywords:
Diophantine equations,
linear recurring sequences,
$S$-unit equations
Received by editor(s):
October 18, 2002
Received by editor(s) in revised form:
February 7, 2003
Posted:
June 10, 2003
Additional Notes:
This work was supported by the Austrian Science Foundation FWF, grant S8307-MAT
The second author was supported by the Hungarian National Foundation for Scientific Research, Grant Nos. 29330 and 38225
Dedicated:
Dedicated to Wolfgang M. Schmidt on the occasion of his 70th birthday.
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2003,
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