On a class of Diophantine equations

DOI10.1155/S0161171202007858MaRDI QIDQ1607883zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Safwan Akbik

Publication date 13 August 2002

Published in International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/51110

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quadratic and bilinear Diophantine equations (11D09) Cubic and quartic Diophantine equations (11D25) Higher degree equations; Fermat's equation (11D41) Counting solutions of Diophantine equations (11D45)

Review text

Summary: Cohn (1971) has shown that the only solution in positive integers of the equation \[ Y(Y+1)(Y+2)(Y+3) = 2 X(X+1)(X+2)(X+3) \] is \(X = 4, Y = 5\). Using this result, Jeyaratnam (1975) has shown that the equation \[ Y(Y+m)(Y+2m)(Y+3m) = 2 X(X+m)(X+2m)(X+3m) \] has only four pairs of nontrivial solutions in integers given by \(X=4m\) or \(-7m, Y = 5m\) or \(-8m\) provided that \(m\) is of a specified type. In this paper, we show that if \(m = (m_1,m_2)\) has a specific form then the nontrivial solutions of the equation \[ Y(Y + m_1)(Y + m_2)(Y + m_1 + m_2) = 2X(X + m_1)(X + m_2)(X + m_1 + m_2) \] are \(m\) times the primitive solutions of a similar equation with smaller \(m\)'s. Then we specifically find all solutions in integers of the equation in the special case \(m_2 = 3m_1\).

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