scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1090071

MaRDI QIDQ4366571zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors T. N. Sinha

Publication date 28 January 1998

zbMATH Keywords

quartic diophantine equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Cubic and quartic Diophantine equations (11D25)

Review text

Let \(p\) be an odd prime with \(p\equiv 7\pmod 8\). The author proves that if \(((p- 3)/4)^2+ 1\) has no prime factor \(q\) with \(q\equiv 5\pmod 8\), then the equation \[ w^2= v^4+ v^3- ((p- 3)(p- 5)/4) v^2+ (p-4)v- 1 \] has no integer solution \((v,w)\). The proof is elementary.

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