On two elliptic curves associated with perfect cuboids

arXiv1208.1227MaRDI QIDQ6234867FDOQ6234867

Publication date: 6 August 2012

Abstract: A rational perfect cuboid is a rectangular parallelepiped whose edges and face diagonals are given by rational numbers and whose space diagonal is equal to unity. Finding such a cuboid is equivalent to finding a perfect cuboid with all integer edges and diagonals, which is an old unsolved problem. Recently, based on a symmetry approach, it was shown that edges and face diagonals of rational perfect cuboid are roots of two cubic equations whose coefficients depend on two rational parameters. Six special cases where these cubic equations are reducible have been already found. Two more possible cases of reducibility for these cubic equations are considered in the present paper. They lead to a pair of elliptic curves.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Cubic and quartic Diophantine equations (11D25) Rational and birational maps (14E05) Rational points (14G05) Diophantine equations in many variables (11D72) Polynomials in general fields (irreducibility, etc.) (12E05) Elliptic curves (14H52)

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