Five squares in arithmetic progression over quadratic fields

DOI10.4171/RMI/754MaRDI QIDQ2436056zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Enrique González-Jiménez, Xavier Xarles

Publication date 21 February 2014

Published in Revista Matemática Iberoamericana (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.1663

zbMATH Keywords

arithmetic progressionsChabauty methodelliptic curvesMordell-Weil sievequadratic fieldssquares

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Arithmetic progressions (11B25) [https://duckduckgo.com/?q=MSC%2011G30%20%22Curves+of+arbitrary+genus+or+genus+%28%0D%0Ae+1%29+over+global+fields%22 Curves of arbitrary genus or genus ( e 1) over global fields (11G30)] Applications of sieve methods (11N36) Arithmetic ground fields for curves (14H25)

Abstract: We give several criteria to show over which quadratic number fields Q(sqrt{D}) there should exists a non-constant arithmetic progressions of five squares. This is done by translating the problem to determining when some genus five curves C_D defined over Q have rational points, and then using a Mordell-Weil sieve argument among others. Using a elliptic Chabauty-like method, we prove that the only non-constant arithmetic progressions of five squares over Q(sqrt{409}), up to equivalence, is 7^2, 13^2, 17^2, 409, 23^2. Furthermore, we give an algorithm that allow to construct all the non-constant arithmetic progressions of five squares over all quadratic fields. Finally, we state several problems and conjectures related to this problem.

Review text

Summary: We provide several criteria to show over which quadratic number fields \(\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{D})\) there is a nonconstant arithmetic progression of five squares. This is carried out by translating the problem to the determination of when some genus five curves \(C_D\) defined over \(\mathbb{Q}\) have rational points, and then by using a Mordell-Weil sieve argument. Using an elliptic curve Chabauty-like method, we prove that, up to equivalence, the only nonconstant arithmetic progression of five squares over \(-(\sqrt{409})\) is \(7^2, 13^2, 17^2, 409, 23^2\). Furthermore, we provide an algorithm for constructing all the nonconstant arithmetic progressions of five squares over all quadratic fields. Finally, we state several problems and conjectures related to this problem.

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