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

DOI10.1142/S1793042118500768MaRDI QIDQ4643777zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Andrew Bremner, Nguyen Xuan Tho

Publication date 29 May 2018

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

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)

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