A symmetric diophantine equation involving biquadrates

Publication date 13 February 2017

Cubic and quartic Diophantine equations (11D25)

Abstract: This paper is concerned with the diophantine equation

s u m_{i = 1}^{n} a_{i} x_{i}^{4} = s u m_{i = 1}^{n} a_{i} y_{i}^{4}

where

n g e q 3

and

a_{i},, i = 1,, 2,, l d o t s,, n

, are arbitrary integers. While a method of obtaining numerical solutions of such an equation has recently been given, it seems that an explicit parametric of this diophantine equation has not yet been published. We obtain a multi-parameter solution of this equation for arbitrary values of

a_{i}

and for any positive integer

n g e q 3

, and deduce specific solutions when

n = 3

and

n = 4

. The numerical solutions thus obtained are much smaller than the integer solutions of such equations obtained earlier.

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