A simple method for solving the Diophantine equation Y^2=X^4+aX^3+bX^2+cX+d

DOI10.1007/S000170050053MaRDI QIDQ1296766zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dimitros Poulakis

Publication date 21 November 1999

Published in Elemente der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s000170050053

zbMATH Keywords

hyperelliptic equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Cubic and quartic Diophantine equations (11D25) Diophantine inequalities (11D75)

Review text

The author gives intervals containing the solutions \(x\) of the title equation. The intervals are surprisingly short, depend only on the coefficients of the polynomial involved and make it possible to determine the solutions in many cases without computers. The proof is elementary.

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