Binary quadratic forms and sums of powers of integers

DOI10.33039/AMI.2020.02.002MaRDI QIDQ5855813zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors José Luis Cereceda

Publication date 20 March 2021

Published in Annales Mathematicae et Informaticae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.14963

zbMATH Keywords

algebraic identitybinary quadratic formDiophantine equationproduct of power sumsPythagorean quadruplessums of powers of integers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Farey sequences; the sequences (1^k, 2^k, dots) (11B57) Cubic and quartic Diophantine equations (11D25)

Abstract: In this methodological paper, we first review the classic cubic Diophantine equation $a^3+b^3+c^3=d^3$, and consider the specific class of solutions $q_1^3+q_2^3+q_3^3=q_4^3$ with each $q_i$ being a binary quadratic form. Next we turn our attention to the familiar sums of powers of the first $n$ positive integers, $S_k=1^k+2^k+cdots+n^k$, and express the squares $S_k^2$, $S_m^2$, and the product $S_k{S}_m$ as a linear combination of power sums. These expressions, along with the above quadratic-form solution for the cubic equation, allows one to generate an infinite number of relations of the form $Q_1^3+Q_2^3+Q_3^3=Q_4^3$, with each $Q_i$ being a linear combination of power sums. Also, we briefly consider the quadratic Diophantine equations $a^2+b^2+c^2=d^2$ and $a^2+b^2=c^2$, and give a family of corresponding solutions $Q_1^2+Q_2^2+Q_3^2=Q_4^2$ and $Q_1^2+Q_2^2=Q_3^2$ in terms of sums of powers of integers.

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