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Norm form equations. III: positive characteristic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

R. C. Mason
R. C. Mason
Affiliation:
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
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This paper aims to provide a complete resolution of the general norm form equation over function fields of positive characteristic. In a previous paper [4] we studied norm forms in the simpler case of zero characteristic; that study forms the starting point for the present investigations. Diophantine problems over function fields of positive characteristic were first investigated by Armitage in 1968 [1], who clamied to have established an analogue of the Thue–Siegel–Roth–Uchiyama theorem for such fields. This claim was refuted by Osgood in 1975 [6], who also derived a correct analogue of Thue's approximation theorem. in 1983 a different attack was made on Diophantine problems over function fields, the principal weapon being a bound [2] for the heights of the solutions of the unit equation

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 99 , Issue 3 , May 1986 , pp. 409 - 423
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1986

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