Diophantine pairs that induce certain Diophantine triples (Q2291717)

A set \(\{a,b,c,d\}\) of four distinct positive integers is called a Diophantine quadruple, if the product of any two elements increased by one is a square. It is well known that if a \(\{a,b,c\}\) already satisfies this property, than \(\{a,b,c,d_+\}\) with \[d_+=a+b+c+2abc+\sqrt{(ab+1)(ac+1)(bc+1)}\] is a Diophantine quadruple. It is an open question, whether every Diophantine quadruple \(\{a,b,c,d\}\) with \(d=\max\{a,b,c,d\}\) satisfies \(d=d_+\). In the paper under review the authors prove that a Diophantine quadruple \(\{a,b,c,d\}\), satisfying the inequality \[a\left(a+\frac 72+\frac 12 \sqrt{4a+13}\right)\le b\leq 4a^2+a+2\sqrt{a}\] also satisfies \(d=d_+\), giving an affirmative answer to the above stated question in this case. As a consequence the authors also prove that if \(a=KA^2\), \(b=4KA^4+4\varepsilon A\), with \(A\) a positive integer, \(K\in \{1,2,3,4\}\), \(\varepsilon\in \{\pm 1\}\) and \(\{a,b,c,d\}\) is a Diophantine quadruple with \(b<c<d\), then \(d=d_+\).