On the extensions of the Diophantine triples in Gaussian integers

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Abstract: A Diophantine m-tuple is a set of m distinct integers such that the product of any two distinct elements plus one is a perfect square. In this paper we study the extensibility of a Diophantine triple k1,k+1,16k34k in Gaussian integers mathbbZ[i] to a Diophantine quadruple. Similar one-parameter family, k1,k+1,4k, was studied in Franuv{s}i'c's previous paper, where it was shown that the extension to a Diophantine quadruple is unique (with an element 16k34k). The family of the triples of the same form k1,k+1,16k34k was already studied in rational integers. It appeared as a special case while solving the extensibility problem of Diophantine pair k1,k+1, in which it was not possible to use the same method as in the other cases. As authors (Bugeaud, Dujella and Mignotte) point out, the difficulty appears because the gap between k+1 and 16k34k is not sufficiently large. We find the same difficulty here while trying to use Diophantine approximations. Then we partially solve this problem by using linear forms in logarithms.





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