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Complete decomposition of Dickson-type polynomials and related Diophantine equations

✍ Scribed by Thomas Stoll


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2008
Tongue
English
Weight
237 KB
Volume
128
Category
Article
ISSN
0022-314X

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✦ Synopsis


We characterize decomposition over C of polynomials f (a,B) n (x) defined by the generalized Dicksontype recursive relation (n 1)

where B, a ∈ Q or R. As a direct application of the uniform decomposition result, we fully settle the finiteness problem for the Diophantine equation

This extends and completes work of Dujella/Tichy and Dujella/Gusić concerning Dickson polynomials of the second kind. The method of the proof involves a new sufficient criterion for indecomposability of polynomials with fixed degree of the right component.