In 2007, Jarden and Narkiewicz raised the following question: Is it true that each algebraic number field has a finite extension L such that the ring of integers of L is generated by its units (as a ring)? In this article, we answer the analogous question in the function field case. More precisely, it is shown that for every finite non-empty set S of places of an algebraic function field F |K o...

Following an approach originally due to Mahler and sharpened by Chudnovsky, we develop an explicit version of the multi-dimensional \hy-pergeometric method" for rational and algebraic approximation to algebraic numbers. Consequently, if a; b and n are given positive integers with n 3, we show that the equation of the title possesses at most one solution in positive integers x; y. Further result...

In this paper we consider representations of algebraic integers of a number field as linear combinations of units with coefficients coming from a fixed small set, and as sums of elements having small norms in absolute value. These theorems can be viewed as results concerning a generalization of the so-called unit sum number problem, as well. Beside these, extending previous related results we g...

Determining the algebraic K-theory of rings of integers in number fields has been the goal of much research. In [10] D. Quillen showed that the Hurewicz map h : Q0(S ) → BGL(Z) (see 1.1 for the notation) induces an interesting map on homotopy groups from the stable homotopy groups of spheres to the algebraic K-theory of the ring Z of rational integers. Quillen observed that if ` is an odd prime...

The classical ring of integer-valued polynomials Int(Z) consists of the polynomials in Q[X] that map Z into Z. We consider a generalization of integervalued polynomials where elements of Q[X] act on sets such as rings of algebraic integers or the ring of n× n matrices with entries in Z. The collection of polynomials thus produced is a subring of Int(Z), and the principal question we consider is...

We present a construction of symmetry plane-groups for quasiperiodic point-sets in the plane, named beta-lattices. The algebraic framework is issued from counting systems called beta-integers, determined by Pisot-Vijayaraghavan (PV) algebraic integers β > 1. The beta-integer sets can be equipped with abelian group structures and internal multiplicative laws. These arithmetic structures lead to ...