Solving the Diophantine equation \(y^2=x(x^2 - n^2)\) (Q2378047)
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Solving the Diophantine equation \(y^2=x(x^2 - n^2)\) (English)
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6 January 2009
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In the paper under review, the authors give some necessary conditions satisfied by the integer solutions of the Diophantine equation \(y^2=x(x^2-n^2)\). With the help of these conditions they develop an algorithm for solving this equation. Their method relies on the computation of the Mordell-Weil rank of an associated elliptic curve, the solution of unit equations over some bicyclic biquadratic number fields and the solution of the equation of the form \(b^2x^4-dy^2=1\), where \(a, b\) are suitably chosen integer depending on \(n\). The paper contains several examples which illustrate the application of the method. In the corrigendum the examples 1 and 10 are corrected.
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elliptic equation
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unit equation
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bicyclic biquadratic field
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integer point
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index form equation
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