Inverse problem for Pell equation and real quadratic fields of the least type

arXiv1212.0294MaRDI QIDQ6237686FDOQ6237686

Authors: Jeongho Park 

Publication date: 3 December 2012

Abstract: The purpose of this article is to give the solutions of the inverse problem for Pellian equations. For any rational number $0<a/b<1$, the fundamental discriminants $D$ satisfying $(lfloorsqrtDfloorb+a{)}^2-D{b}^2=4$ are given in terms of a quadratic progression. There were studies about this problem based on symmetric sequences $a_1,\mathrm{...},a_{l-1}$ and periodic continued fractions $$, but in this article we solve the problem in a completely different way with simpler parameters. The result is obtained by measuring the quality of approximation of a rational number to $sqrtd$ or $frac1+sqrtd2$, and by defining a short interval attached to each rational number. On this formulation we also show that for almost all square-free integer $d$, $d$ is the least element of the prescribed quadratic progression for some $a/b$.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Class numbers, class groups, discriminants (11R29) Algebraic number theory computations (11Y40) Approximation to algebraic numbers (11J68)

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