Effective Results and Methods for Diophantine Equations over Finitely Generated Domains

Jan-Hendrik Evertse is Associate Professor in Number Theory at Leiden University in the Netherlands. He co-edited the lecture notes in mathematics Diophantine Approximation and Abelian Varieties (1993) with Bas Edixhoven, and co-authored two books with Kálmán Győry: Unit Equations in Diophantine Number Theory (Cambridge, 2016) and Discriminant Equations in Diophantine Number Theory (Cambridge, 2016). Kálmán Győry is Professor Emeritus at the University of Debrecen, Hungary and a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Győry is the founder and leader of the Number Theory Research Group in Debrecen. Together with Jan-Hendrik Evertse he has written two books: Unit Equations in Diophantine Number Theory (Cambridge, 2016) and Discriminant Equations in Diophantine Number Theory (Cambridge, 2016).

Preface; Glossary of frequently used notation; History and summary; 1. Ineffective results for Diophantine equations over finitely generated domains; 2. Effective results for Diophantine equations over finitely generated domains: the statements; 3. A brief explanation of our effective methods over finitely generated domains; 4. Effective results over number fields; 5. Effective results over function fields; 6. Tools from effective commutative algebra; 7. The effective specialization method; 8. Degree-height estimates; 9. Proofs of the results from Sections 2.2–2.5-use of specializations; 10. Proofs of the results from Sections 2.6–2.8-reduction to unit equations; References; Index.