The Vojta conjecture for integral points on hyperelliptic curves

For each integer d3d\ge 3, let fZ[x]f\in\mathbb{Z}[x] have degree dd and nonzero discriminant, and let h(f)h(f) be the maximum of the logarithmic heights of the coefficients of ff. Vojta's conjecture. There exist constants C1=C1(d)C_1=C_1(d) and C2=C2(d)C_2=C_2(d) such that, whenever x,yZx,y\in\mathbb{Z} satisfy

y2=f(x),y^2=f(x),

then

h(x)C1(d)h(f)+C2(d).h(x)\le C_1(d)\cdot h(f)+C_2(d).

This uniform height bound is invoked in the paper to control the indices at which the arboreal Galois extensions can fail to be maximal. The source treats it as an assumed conjectural input, so its status here is open.

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Primary source

Nicole R. Looper, “Dynamical Galois groups of trinomials and Odoni's conjecture”, arXiv:1609.03398 (2016).

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