Integral solutions of Markoff-Hurwitz equations

DOI10.1006/JNTH.1994.1078MaRDI QIDQ1336054zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Arthur Baragar

Publication date 14 September 1995

Published in Journal of Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1006/jnth.1994.1078

zbMATH Keywords

fundamental solutionsMarkoff numberspositive integral solutionsquadratic diophantine equationssymmetric equations of Hurwitz

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Cubic and quartic Diophantine equations (11D25)

Review text

The author discusses the positive integral solutions to the symmetric equations of Hurwitz, \(x_ 1^ 2+ \dots+ x_ n^ 2= ax_ 1\cdots x_ n\). Markoff showed that in the case of \(a=n =3\), there is a fundamental solution from which a straightforward group action generates all of the positive integral solutions. Hurwitz proved that the set of positive integral solutions for a general pair \(a\) and \(n\) is either empty, or arises from a finite number of fundamental solutions. In this well-written paper, the author sharpens results of N. P. Herzberg on the set of \(a\) and \(n\) which lead to non-trivial solution sets. He also constructs, in two rather different manners (one completely elementary, the other involving the theory of quadratic number fields), sequences of \(a\) and \(n\) with unbounded number of fundamental solutions.

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