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A weighted bicolored plane tree is a bicolored plane tree whose edges are endowed with positive integral weights. The degree of a vertex is defined as the sum of the weights of the edges incident to this vertex. Using the theory of dessins d'enfants, which studies the action of the absolute Galois group on graphs embedded into Riemann surfaces, we show that a weighted plane tree is a graphical representation of a pair of coprime complex polynomials A,B such that: (a) deg A = deg B, and A and B have the same leading coefficient; (b) the multiplicities of the roots of A (respectively, of B) are equal to the degrees of the black (respectively, white) vertices of the corresponding tree; (c) the degree of the difference A-B attains the minimum which is possible for the given multiplicities of the roots of A and B. Moreover, if a tree in question is uniquely determined by the set of its black and white vertex degrees (we call such trees unitrees), then the corresponding polynomials are defined over Q. The pairs of polynomials A,B such that the degree of the difference A-B attains the minimum, and especially those defined over Q, are related to some important questions of number theory. D

Author

Pakovich, F.; Zvonkin, A.

Published

2013

Language

EN