Solving Quadratic and Cubic Diophantine Equations using 2-adic Valuation Trees

Abstract: For fixed integers

D g e q 0

and

c g e q 3

, we demonstrate how to use

2

-adic valuation trees of sequences to analyze Diophantine equations of the form

x^{2} + D = 2^{c} y

and

x^{3} + D = 2^{c} y

, for

y

odd. Further, we show for what values

D i n m a t h b b Z^{+}

, the numbers

x^{3} + D

will generate infinite valuation trees, which lead to infinite solutions to the above Diophantine equations.

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