Polynomial parametrizations of length 4 Büchi sequences

DOI10.4064/AA150-3-1MaRDI QIDQ3174458zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Xavier Vidaux

Publication date 14 October 2011

Published in Acta Arithmetica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1008.2994, http://hdl.handle.net/10533/137695

zbMATH Keywords

del PezzoBüchi sequencespolynomial parameterization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special sequences and polynomials (11B83) Quadratic and bilinear Diophantine equations (11D09)

Abstract: B"uchi's problem asks whether there exists a positive integer $M$ such that any sequence $(x_n)$ of at least $M$ integers, whose second difference of squares is the constant sequence $(2)$, satisifies $x_n^2=(x+n{)}^2$ for some $$. A positive answer to B"uchi's problem would imply that there is no algorithm to decide whether or not an arbitrary system of quadratic diagonal forms over $$ can represent an arbitrary given vector of integers. We give explicitly an infinite family of polynomial parametrizations of non-trivial length $4$ B"uchi sequences of integers. In turn, these parametrizations give an explicit infinite family of curves (which we suspect to be hyperelliptic) with the following property: any integral point on one of these curves would give a length $5$ non-trivial B"uchi sequence of integers (it is not known whether any such sequence exists).

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