A polynomial variant of a problem of Diophantus and Euler (Q1430421)

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A polynomial variant of a problem of Diophantus and Euler
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    A polynomial variant of a problem of Diophantus and Euler (English)
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    27 May 2004
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    It is shown that there are no polynomials \(f_1(X),\dots,f_4(X)\) with integral coefficients having the property that the polynomials \(f_if_j-1\) are squares for \(1\leq i<j\leq 4\). The main point of the proof consists in showing that two polynomial binary linear recurrences, resulting from consideration of a system of two polynomial Pell equations, do not have common elements.
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    polynomial diophantine equations
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    problem of Diophantos
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    binary linear recurrence
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