A simple proof of the Markoff conjecture for prime powers

DOI10.1007/S10711-007-9189-XzbMATH Open1133.11023OpenAlexW3099739474MaRDI QIDQ2467184FDOQ2467184

Authors Mong Lung Lang, Ser Peow Tan 

Publication date 21 January 2008

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0508443

zbMATH Keywords

simple closed geodesicsMarkoff numbersmodular torus

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Cubic and quartic Diophantine equations (11D25) Continued fractions and generalizations (11J70) Markov and Lagrange spectra and generalizations (11J06)

Abstract: We give a simple and independent proof of the result of Jack Button and Paul Schmutz that the Markoff conjecture on the uniqueness of the Markoff triples (a,b,c), where a, b, and c are in increasing order, holds whenever $c$ is a prime power.

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