Asymptotics for Pillai's problem with polynomials

Abstract

Let $a_1(x)p_1(x{)}^n+\cdots +a_k(x)p_k(x{)}^n$ as well as $b_1(x)q_1(x{)}^m+\cdots +b_l(x)q_l(x{)}^m$ be two polynomial power sums where the complex polynomials $p_i(x)$ and $q_j(x)$ are all non-constant. Then in the present paper we will give an asymptotic for the number of pairs $(n,m)\in {\mathbb{N}}^2$ such that the degree of the sum of these two power sums is between $0$ and $d$ when $d$ goes to infinity.

arXiv comment5 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2111.05085