Approximation of quadrilaterals by rational quadrilaterals in the plane

DOI10.1007/S12044-016-0312-5zbMATH Open1371.11078arXiv1601.01496OpenAlexW3103088441MaRDI QIDQ2358438FDOQ2358438

Authors: C. P. Anil Kumar 

Publication date: 14 June 2017

Published in: Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences. Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Many questions about triangles and quadrilaterals with rational sides, diagonals and areas can be reduced to solving certain Diophantine equations. We look at a number of such questions including the question of approximating arbitrary triangles and quadrilaterals by those with rational sides,diagonals and areas. We transform these problems into questions on the existence of infinitely many rational solutions on a two parameter family of quartic curves. This is further transformed to a two parameter family of elliptic curves to deduce our main result concerning density of points on a line which are at a rational distance from three collinear points (Theorem 4). We deduce from this a new proof of density of rational quadrilaterals in the space of all quadrilaterals (Theorem 39). The other main result (Theorem 3) of this article is on the density of rational triangles which is related to analyzing rational points on the unit circle. Interestingly, this enables us to deduce that parallelograms with rational sides and area are dense in the class of all parallelograms. We also give a criterion for density of certain sets in topological spaces using local product structure and prove the density Theorem 6 in the appendix section. An application of this proves the density of rational points as stated in Theorem 31.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.01496

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zbMATH Keywords

elliptic curverational pointsplanecollineardenserational arearational distance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Cubic and quartic Diophantine equations (11D25) Elliptic curves over global fields (11G05) Approximation by numbers from a fixed field (11J17)

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