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Solving Genus Zero Diophantine Equations with at Most Two Infinite Valuations

✍ Scribed by Dimitrios Poulakis; Evaggelos Voskos


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2002
Tongue
English
Weight
249 KB
Volume
33
Category
Article
ISSN
0747-7171

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✦ Synopsis


Let f (X, Y ) be an absolutely irreducible polynomial with integer coefficients such that the curve defined by the equation f (X, Y ) = 0 is of genus 0 having at most two infinite valuations. This paper describes a practical general method for the explicit determination of all integer solutions of the diophantine equation f (X, Y ) = 0. Several elaborated examples are given. Furthermore, a necessary and sufficient condition for a curve of genus 0 to have infinitely many integer points is obtained.