Anton Mosunov, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"Representation of Prime Powers by Binary Forms"
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Consider an irreducible polynomial f(x) of degree d>=7, with integer coefficients. Suppose that it has the following interesting property: if a is a root of f(x) then the field Q(a) contains all roots of f(x). Let F(x,y) be its homogenization. I will explain why every sufficiently large prime power gets represented by |F(x,y)| at most 12 times, as long as x and y are coprime.
MC 5417