Enumeration of tilings of diamonds and hexagons with defects.
Power-free values, large deviations, and integer points on irrational curves
Let be a polynomial of degree without roots of multiplicity or . Erdős conjectured that, if satisfies the necessary local conditions, then is free of th powers for infinitely many primes . This is proved here for all with sufficiently high entropy. The proof serves to demonstrate two innovations: a strong repulsion principle for integer points on curves of positive genus, and a number-theoretical analogue of Sanov’s theorem from the theory of large deviations.
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