Rational solutions of the Diophantine equations \(f(x)^2\pm f(y)^2=z^2\) (Q2338609)

In the paper under review the authors show that for any \(n\ge 1\), there are polynomials \(f(x)\in {\mathbb{Z}}[x]\) of degree \(n\) without multiple roots such that the title equation has infinitely many non-trivial rational solutions \((x,y,z)\). For the proof, they construct some particular polynomials which for certain evaluations of \(x\) and \(y\) in terms of a third parameter \(T\), the resulting equation in \((z,T)\) yields an elliptic curve with a particular rational point on it which is not torsion; hence, any elliptic curve multiple of it yields a distinct solution to the desired equation. Some of the calculations were carried out with Magma.