Applications of Diophantine Approximation to Integral Points and Transcendence

Pietro Corvaja is Full Professor of Geometry at the Universit... degli Studi di Udine, Italy. His research interests include arithmetic geometry, Diophantine approximation and the theory of transcendental numbers. Umberto Zannier is Full Professor of Geometry at Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. His research interests include number theory, especially Diophantine geometry and related topics.

• Notations and conventions; Introduction; 1. Diophantine approximation and Diophantine equations; 2. Schmidt's subspace theorem and S-unit equations; 3. Integral points on curves and other varieties; 4. Diophantine equations with linear recurrences; 5. Some applications of the subspace theorem in transcendental number theory; References; Index.

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