Solving families of simultaneous Pell equations

DOI10.1006/JNTH.1997.2188MaRDI QIDQ1377598zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael A. Bennett

Publication date 31 August 1998

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

Full work available at URL https://semanticscholar.org/paper/2ffa2d70abece759c9c78235019c26af29614684

zbMATH Keywords

linear forms in three logarithms of algebraic numbersnumber of solutionssimultaneous Pell equationsVoutier's estimate

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quadratic and bilinear Diophantine equations (11D09) Linear forms in logarithms; Baker's method (11J86)

Review text

Let \(a,b\) be distinct nonzero integers and consider the number of solutions of the simultaneous equations \[ x^2-az^2=1,\quad y^2-bz^2=1\quad\text{in }(x,y,z)\in\mathbb{Z}^3. \] The author [On the number of solutions of simultaneous Pell equations, J. Reine Angew. Math. 498, 173-199 (1998)] showed that the above system of equations has at most three solutions. An infinite parametric family of \(a,b\) is given for which two solutions are explicitly given. The author conjectures that the number of solutions is in fact always two. Using a sharp estimate of Voutier for linear forms in three logarithms of algebraic numbers it is shown that in the above mentioned infinite parametric family the number of solutions is indeed two except for at most finitely many values of the parameter.

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