Thue's Fundamentaltheorem, II: Further Refinements and Examples

Paul Voutier

Published 2009-01-12, updated 2015-02-05Version 2

In this paper, we sharpen and simplify our earlier results based on Thue's Fundamentaltheorem and use it to obtain effective irrationality measures for certain roots of polynomials of the form $(x-\sqrt{t})^{n}+(x+\sqrt{t})^{n}$, where $n \geq 4$ is a positive integer and $t$ is a negative integer. For $n=4$ and $n=5$, we find infinitely many such algebraic numbers.