Polynomials: Special Polynomials and Number-Theoretical Applications
A special issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994). This special issue belongs to the section "Mathematics".
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Interests: polynomials; diophantine number theory
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Dear Colleagues,
The polynomials play an important role in mathematics and science. We aim to focus on two applications of these well-known mathematical objects in this Issue: special polynomials and number theory.
The special polynomials (including Bernoulli and Euler polynomials and their generalizations) possess several applications in many branches of pure and applied mathematics. On the other hand, the nth Bernoulli polynomial Bn(X), for example, is a special bridge between certain mathematical topics; we refer here only to the classical formula by Jacob Bernoulli, 1k+2k+… +(x-1)k=1/(k+1)(Bk+1(x)-Bk+1(0))
The application of polynomials in number theory, especially in the theory of diophantine equations, goes back to the famous result of LeVeque from 1964. Let f(X) be a polynomial with rational coefficients, and let r1,…,rn denote the multiplicities of its zeros. LeVeque's theorem states that for given m>1 , the superelliptic equation f(x) = ym in integers x, y has only finitely many solutions, unless {m/(m, r1),…, m/(m, rn)} is a permutation of one of the n-tuples {t, 1,..., 1}, t >0, and {2, 2, 1,..., 1}.
This was an ineffective finiteness result; later, several authors obtained effective versions providing an upper bound for x and y. However, one can see that to apply LeVeque's condition for a broad class of polynomial diophantine equations is a rather hard problem, because we have to determine the structure of zeros of an infinite family of polynomials.
The expected high-level articles should be a novel research contribution or an expository survey article related to the above-mentioned topics touching the role of symmetry.
Prof. Dr. Ákos Pintér
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Polynomials
- Bernoulli- and Euler polynomials and their generalizations
- Other special polynomials
- Structure of zeros of polynomials
- Polynomial diophantine equations
- Superelliptic diophantine equations
- LeVeque’s theorem
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