The equation (w+x+y+z)(1/w+1/x+1/y+1/z) = n

DOI10.1142/S1793042118500768zbMATH Open1428.11057MaRDI QIDQ4643777FDOQ4643777

Authors: Andrew Bremner, Nguyen Xuan Tho 

Publication date: 29 May 2018

Published in: International Journal of Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

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zbMATH Keywords

quartic surfaceelliptic curveHilbert symbolDiophantine representation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Cubic and quartic Diophantine equations (11D25) Elliptic curves over global fields (11G05) Rational points (14G05) Representation problems (11D85)

Cites Work

• The Magma algebra system. I: The user language
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• Which Integers are Representable as the Product of the Sum of Three Integers with the Sum of their Reciprocals?
• An unusual cubic representation problem

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• An extension of Bremner and Macleod's theorem
• On a remark of Sierpiński
• What positive integers \(n\) can be presented in the form \(n=(x+y+z)(1/x+1/y+1/z)\)?
• On sums of positive rationals with given products
• On a Diophantine equation
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Uses Software

• Magma
• MathOverflow

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