Abstract:
In the paper we consider the problem of obtaining estimates for the number
of minimal integer polynomials $P(x)$ of degree $n$ and height not exceeding $Q$, such that
the derivative is bounded at a root $\alpha$, i.e. $\left| P'(\alpha) \right| < Q^{1-v}$ for some $v > 0$.
This problem occurs naturally in many problems of metric number theory
related to obtaining effective estimates for the measure of points
at which integral polynomials from some class take small values.
For example, in 1976 R. Baker has used such an estimate for obtaining an upper bound for the Hasdorff dimension
in Baker-Schdimt problem.
We prove that the number of polynomials $P(x)$ defined above
having roots $\alpha$ on the interval $\left( -\frac12; \frac12 \right)$
doesn't exceed $c_1(n)Q^{n+1-\frac35 v}$ for $Q>Q_0(n)$ and $1.5 \le v \le \frac12 (n+1)$.
The result is based on an imrovement to the lemma on small integer polynomial divisor extraction
from A.O. Gelfond's monograph "Transcendetal and algebraic numbers".