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2012 A nonextendable Diophantine quadruple arising from a triple of Lucas numbers
A. M. S. Ramasamy, D. Saraswathy
Involve 5(3): 257-271 (2012). DOI: 10.2140/involve.2012.5.257

Abstract

We establish that the only positive integral solutions common to the two Pell’s equations U218V2=119 and Z229V2=196 are U=41, V=10 and Z=52.

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A. M. S. Ramasamy. D. Saraswathy. "A nonextendable Diophantine quadruple arising from a triple of Lucas numbers." Involve 5 (3) 257 - 271, 2012. https://doi.org/10.2140/involve.2012.5.257

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Received: 30 October 2010; Revised: 6 October 2011; Accepted: 18 December 2011; Published: 2012
First available in Project Euclid: 20 December 2017

zbMATH: 1272.11033
MathSciNet: MR3044612
Digital Object Identifier: 10.2140/involve.2012.5.257

Subjects:
Primary: 11B39
Secondary: 11B37 , 11D09

Keywords: characteristic number , Diophantine property , factorization , Jacobi symbol , Lucas numbers , recurrence relation , simultaneous Pell's equations

Rights: Copyright © 2012 Mathematical Sciences Publishers

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