Common divisors of a^n-1 and b^n-1 over function fields

Details Common divisors of a^n-1 and b^n-1 over function fields Common divisors of a^n-1 and b^n-1 over function fields

2004-01-26

arxiv.org/abs/math/0401356v1

New York Journal of Math. (electronic) 10 (2004), 37--43

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Number Theory

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Ailon and Rudnick have shown that if $a,b \in C[T]$ are multiplicatively independent polynomials, then $\deg(\gcd(a^n-1,b^n-1))$ is bounded for all $n\ge1$. We show that if instead $a,b \in F[T]$ for a finite field $F$ of characteristic $p$, then $\deg(\gcd(a^n-1,b^n-1))$ is larger than $Cn$ for a constant $C=C(a,b)>0$ and for infinitely many $n$, even if $n$ is restricted in various reasonable ways (e.g., $gec(n,p)=1$).

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