SOLVING DISCRIMINANT FORM EQUATIONS VIA UNIT EQUATIONS

Authors
Citation
N. Smart, SOLVING DISCRIMINANT FORM EQUATIONS VIA UNIT EQUATIONS, Journal of symbolic computation, 21(3), 1996, pp. 367-374
Citations number
19
Categorie Soggetti
Mathematics,"Computer Sciences, Special Topics",Mathematics,"Computer Science Theory & Methods
ISSN journal
07477171
Volume
21
Issue
3
Year of publication
1996
Pages
367 - 374
Database
ISI
SICI code
0747-7171(1996)21:3<367:SDFEVU>2.0.ZU;2-7
Abstract
A general method is given to solve discriminant and index form equatio ns of Thue and Mahler type. The method is shown to be practical for di scriminant and index form equations for number fields with moderately sized minimal Galois closures. (C) 1996 Academic Press Limited