Is there a computable upper bound for the height of a solution of a Diophantine equation with a unique solution in positive integers?
Abstract
Let Bn=xi · xj=xk, xi+1=xk: i,j,k ∈ 1,...,n. For a positive integer n, let (n) denote the smallest positive integer b such that for each system S ⊂eq Bn with a unique solution in positive integers x1,...,xn, this solution belongs to [1,b]n. Let g(1)=1, and let g(n+1)=22g(n) for every positive integer n. We conjecture that (n) ≤ g(2n) for every positive integer n. We prove: (1) the function : N\0-->N\0 is computable in the limit; (2) if a function f:N\0-->N\0 has a single-fold Diophantine representation, then there exists a positive integer m such that f(n)<(n) for every integer n>m; (3) the conjecture implies that there exists an algorithm which takes as input a Diophantine equation D(x1,...,xp)=0 and returns a positive integer d with the following property: for every positive integers a1,...,ap, if the tuple (a1,...,ap) solely solves the equation D(x1,...,xp)=0 in positive integers, then a1,...,ap ≤ d; (4) the conjecture implies that if a set M ⊂eq N has a single-fold Diophantine representation, then M is computable; (5) for every integer n>9, the inequality (n)<(22n-5-1)2n-5+1 implies that 22n-5+1 is composite.
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