The equation x1 x2 + x2 x3 + x3 x4 + x4 x1 = n

Author(s):  
Erik Dofs ◽  
Nguyen Xuan Tho

1 It is a subtle question as to when the Diophantine equation of the tittle has solutions in positive integers. Here, we show that the equation in the title does not have solutions in positive integers in the case that [Formula: see text] is of the form [Formula: see text], where [Formula: see text], with [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], and [Formula: see text]. We do this by explicitly calculating a Brauer–Manin obstruction to weak approximation on the elliptic surface defined by the title equation.

Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (15) ◽  
pp. 1813
Author(s):  
S. Subburam ◽  
Lewis Nkenyereye ◽  
N. Anbazhagan ◽  
S. Amutha ◽  
M. Kameswari ◽  
...  

Consider the Diophantine equation yn=x+x(x+1)+⋯+x(x+1)⋯(x+k), where x, y, n, and k are integers. In 2016, a research article, entitled – ’power values of sums of products of consecutive integers’, primarily proved the inequality n= 19,736 to obtain all solutions (x,y,n) of the equation for the fixed positive integers k≤10. In this paper, we improve the bound as n≤ 10,000 for the same case k≤10, and for any fixed general positive integer k, we give an upper bound depending only on k for n.


2013 ◽  
Vol 89 (2) ◽  
pp. 316-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
MOU JIE DENG

AbstractLet $(a, b, c)$ be a primitive Pythagorean triple satisfying ${a}^{2} + {b}^{2} = {c}^{2} . $ In 1956, Jeśmanowicz conjectured that for any given positive integer $n$ the only solution of $\mathop{(an)}\nolimits ^{x} + \mathop{(bn)}\nolimits ^{y} = \mathop{(cn)}\nolimits ^{z} $ in positive integers is $x= y= z= 2. $ In this paper, for the primitive Pythagorean triple $(a, b, c)= (4{k}^{2} - 1, 4k, 4{k}^{2} + 1)$ with $k= {2}^{s} $ for some positive integer $s\geq 0$, we prove the conjecture when $n\gt 1$ and certain divisibility conditions are satisfied.


2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 103
Author(s):  
Leomarich F Casinillo ◽  
Emily L Casinillo

A Pythagorean triple is a set of three positive integers a, b and c that satisfy the Diophantine equation a^2+b^2=c^2. The triple is said to be primitive if gcd(a, b, c)=1 and each pair of integers and  are relatively prime, otherwise known as non-primitive. In this paper, the generalized version of the formula that generates primitive and non-primitive Pythagorean triples that depends on two positive integers  k and n, that is, P_T=(a(k, n), b(k, n), c(k, n)) were constructed. Further, we determined the values of  k and n that generates primitive Pythagorean triples and give some important results.


2012 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 435-440
Author(s):  
Konstantine Zelator

AbstractWe consider the diophantine equation x2 + y6 = ze, e ≥ 4. We show that, when e is a multiple of 4 or 6, this equation has no solutions in positive integers with x and y relatively prime. As a corollary, we show that there exists no primitive Pythagorean triangle one of whose leglengths is a perfect cube, while the hypotenuse length is an integer square.


1958 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Davis ◽  
Hilary Putnam

Hilbert's tenth problem is to find an algorithm for determining whether or not a diophantine equation possesses solutions. A diophantine predicate (of positive integers) is defined to be one of the formwhere P is a polynomial with integral coefficients (positive, negative, or zero). Previous work has considered the variables as ranging over nonnegative integers; but we shall find it more useful here to restrict the range to positive integers, no essential change being thereby introduced. It is clear that the recursive unsolvability of Hilbert's tenth problem would follow if one could show that some non-recursive predicate were diophantine. In particular, it would suffice to show that every recursively enumerable predicate is diophantine. Actually, it would suffice to prove far less.


1994 ◽  
Vol 116 (3) ◽  
pp. 385-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Le Maohua

Let ℤ, ℕ, ℚ denote the sets of integers, positive integers and rational numbers, respectively. Solutions (x, y, m, n) of the equation (1) have been investigated in many papers:Let ω(m), ρ(m) denote the number of distinct prime factors and the greatest square free factor of m, respectively. In this note we prove the following results.


1993 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. H. E. Cohn

Many special cases of the equation x2+C= yn where x and y are positive integers and n≥3 have been considered over the years, but most results for general n are of fairly recent origin. The earliest reference seems to be an assertion by Fermat that he had shown that when C=2, n=3, the only solutions are given by x = 5, y = 3; a proof was published by Euler [1]. The first result for general n is due to Lebesgue [2] who proved that when C = 1 there are no solutions. Nagell [4] generalised Fermat's result and proved that for C = 2 the equation has no solution other than x = 5, y = 3, n = 3. He also showed [5] that for C = 4 the equation has no solution except x = 2, y = 2, n = 3 and x = 11, y = 5, n = 3, and claims in [6] to have dealt with the case C = 5. The case C = -1 was solved by Chao Ko, and an account appears in [3], pp. 302–304.


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