Discriminant Equations in Diophantine Number Theory (Hardcover)

Preface; Summary; Part I. Preliminaries: 1. Finite etale algebras over fields; 2. Dedekind domains; 3. Algebraic number fields; 4. Tools from the theory of unit equations; Part II. Monic Polynomials and Integral Elements of Given Discriminant, Monogenic Orders: 5. Basic finiteness theorems; 6. Effective results over Z; 7. Algorithmic resolution of discriminant form and index form equations; 8. Effective results over the S-integers of a number field; 9. The number of solutions of discriminant equations; 10. Effective results over finitely generated domains; 11. Further applications; Part III. Binary Forms of Given Discriminant: 12. A brief overview of the basic finiteness theorems; 13. Reduction theory of binary forms; 14. Effective results for binary forms of given discriminant; 15. Semi-effective results for binary forms of given discriminant; 16. Invariant orders of binary forms; 17. On the number of equivalence classes of binary forms of given discriminant; 18. Further applications; Glossary of frequently used notation; References; Index.