Questions tagged [diophantine-equations]
Use for questions about finding integer or rational solutions to polynomial equations.
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Solution to a Third degree diophantine equation
I have two diophantine equations of the third degree viz.$$2b_1^3l_1+3b_1^2l_1^2+b_1l_1^3=k$$ and $$2b_2^3l_2+3b_2^2l_2^2+b_2l_2^3=k$$ The aim is to find distinct values of $(l_i,b_i)$ which satisfy ...
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Pythagorean Quadruples and Stereographic Projection
I am trying to solve Diophantine equation $a^2+b^2+c^2=d^2$ by transforming this equation, assuming $d \neq 0$, into a sphere $ (\frac{a}{d})^2 + (\frac{b}{d})^2 +(\frac{c}{d})^2 = x^2 + y^2 +z^2 =1$ ...
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Show that the equation $\frac{x^n-1}{x-1}=4y^2$ has only two solutions
Prove or disprove
Let $x,y,n$ be postive integers, show that the equation given below has only two solutions
$$\frac{x^n-1}{x-1}=4y^2$$
I have found that $(x,n,y)=(3,2,1)$ and $(x,n,y)=(7,4,10)$ ...
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Find and integer solution to an equation where the x coordinate is greater than a certain value
So I have $9160x+4240y=1000$
Using the EA to find the gcd, I get that it is equal to 40.
Solving for the RHS and working backwards, I have:
$$40=680-160*4$$
$$160=4240-680$$
$$680 = 9160-4240*2$$...
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A discrepancy in the used general solution of linear diophantine equation in David M. Burton book.
In David Burton book "seventh edition", the general solution of linear diophantine equation is given below (in page 34):
Then in page 76 after linking linear congruences with linear diophantine ...
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How to find solutions to a linear Diophantine equation restricted to given intervals of x and y? [on hold]
For example: find all $x$, $y$ satisfying $10x + 20y = 300$ and $-10 < x < 10 , 0 < y < 20$. I wanted to write a program for this.
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Using Diophantine Equation to find the solutions of another equation
If $17x+51y=85$, find the value of $19x+57y$
I know I could use substitution and figure this out but i wanted to use Diophantine equation. I'm just a little confused because I know that $\gcd(17,51)=...
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Solutions to simple Diophantine Equation [closed]
Find all solutions to the equation $3^x - 3^y = 3$ where $x, y$ are positive
integers (or show there are none).
I know there are no solutions to this, so I know I can set up the proof for 2 cases: $x ...
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Question about “Primes of the form $x^2+ny^2$”: Proper ideals are invertible
I am reading through Cox's book Primes of the form $x^2+ny^2$ and I am stuck with some proofs in Chapter 7 (I have the 2nd edition). There, the author presents the following Lemma:
Lemma 7.5: Let $...
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Area of a digital disk
Considering the number of integer solutions of $x^2+y^2\le n^2$, a digital disk, which is obviously asymptotic to $\pi n^2$, how can we find a tight upper bound of the form
$$an^2+bn+c\ ?$$
The ...
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What property of rational solutions of a Diophantine equation makes this graph impossible?
Yesterday I read up on Diophantine equations and the property in which two rational solutions of such an equation make a line that gives a third rational solution to the equation. I was thinking about ...
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Need help to understand this solution of $2^mp^2 +1=q^5$
The Question-
Find all triples $(m,p,q)$ where $ m $ is a positive integer and $ p ,
> q $ are primes.
****$2^mp^2 +1=q^5$****
After trying my best to solve this problem, and progressing a ...
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Solving a Diophantine equation $3a^3+3b^3=a^3+c^3$
A friend of mine gave me the following problem
Find all integers solutions to $$3a^3+3b^3=a^3+c^3$$
Of course $(0,0,0)$ is a solution, and I think that there are no others, but I can’t prove it. I ...
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Solving the Diophantine equation $7x+4y=100$
I have attempted to solve this Diophantine equation:
But the solution I got is different from the one given above, my general solution is:
$x = -100 + 4t$ & $y = 200 - 7t$ , is the solution ...
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If $x, y, z$ are three distinct positive integers, where $x + y + z = 13$ and $xy, xz, yz$ form an arithmetic…
If $x, y, z$ are three distinct positive integers, where $x + y + z = 13$ and $xy, xz, yz$ form an increasing arithmetic sequence, what is the value of $(x + y)^z$ ?
I've been trying to solve this by ...
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$1234x+567y=89$
I need to solve this with congruence. What I already done is :
$$1234x+567y=89$$
$$1234x\equiv 89\bmod 567$$
$$1234\cdot17x\equiv 89\cdot17\bmod 567$$
$$20978x\equiv 1513\bmod 567$$
$$x\equiv -1513\...
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Number of possible integer values of $x$ for which $\frac{x^3+2x^2+9}{x^2+4x+5}$ is integer
How many integer numbers, $x$, verify that the following
\begin{equation*}
\frac{x^3+2x^2+9}{x^2+4x+5}
\end{equation*}
is an integer?
I managed to do:
\begin{equation*}
\frac{x^3+2x^2+9}{x^2+4x+5} ...
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Diophantine equation $dx^2-y^2=d-1$ for non-square $d$
For $d=2$ or $3$ the continuous fractions for $\sqrt 2$ and $\sqrt 3$ help (at least partially), but for $d\ge 5$, this doesn't seem to work.
Is there any known solution or technique to solve this ...
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exponential = polynomial diophantine equation
Let $a$ be a fixed constant like 2 or 3 (for example). Let $P(x)$ be a single variable polynomial in x with integer coefficients.
What is known about the natural number solutions $(x,y)$ of
$$P(x) = ...
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Solving the diophantine $y^3=2x^2$
I am trying to find the general solutions to the diophantine $y^3=2x^2$. Usually I can solve these using coprime/prime factorisation methods but I have tried and cannot seem to get the correct general ...
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Solvability of a Diophantine equation in mod 8 class
How does one solve an equation of the form
$$
3^a - b^3 \equiv 1 \ ({\rm mod}\ 8)?
$$
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Pirates and Bag of Coins [duplicate]
A group of pirates with 17 members steal a bag of golden coins. When they share their loot evenly, it left with 3 coins. When they argue who should get the remaining of the coins, one of them is ...
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Find $1 \le a < b \le n$ such that $a\cdot b + a + b = n\cdot (n+1)/2$
Find $1 \le a < b \le n$ such that $$a\cdot b + a + b = \frac{n\cdot (n+1)}2$$
Is there a more efficient way than picking $a$ or $b$ and trying all values between $1$ and $n$ ?
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Integer Solutions to a Two-Sheeted Hyperboloid
During some free time I had, I was wondering how to find the integer solutions $(x,y,z)$ to this generalized equation: $$z^2=axy+bx+cy+d$$ I am specifically looking for ways that do no involve ...
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Difference between diophantine equations $ax + by = c$ and $ax - by = c$
I had just solved this problem of Sierpinski
Prove that the sequence $2^n - 3, \; n = 2,3,4, \dots$ contains
infinitely many terms divisible by $5$ and $13$ but no terms divisible
by $5\cdot 13$...
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How do you generate for a given solution for a linear diophantine equation more solutions
How can I generate for a given solution of a linear diophantine equation all solutions?
For example let $21x+12y+9z=9$. I found one solution to be $(-3+3t,6-6t,t),t\in\mathbb Z$. How can I generate ...
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General Solution of Linear Diophantine Equation with 2 and more than 2 variable
We know the theorem of linear diophantine equation from Bezout's identity that the solution is in ordered pair form:
$\left(x + m \dfrac{b}{\text{gcd}(a,b)}\,,\,y-m \dfrac{a}{\text{gcd}(a,b)}\right)$
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Diophantine with primes factorials
Let $p\in \Bbb{P},\alpha\in \Bbb{N}$. Find all of the solutions of the
following equation: $$(p-1)!+1=p^{\alpha} \ \ \ ,p>6$$
My attempt
We can rewrite the equation as follows:
$$(p-1)!=p^{\...
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Diophantine equation of power 2
I want to solve the following equation: $x^2-17y^2=104$ where $x,y$ are integers. I don't know how to proceed here. I have tried with mod $13$ and mod $17$ but it doesn't work.
Thanks in advance!
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Equation Involving Ratios
In some of my research, I found multiple equations of this form: $$\frac{ax+b}{cx+d}=k$$ where $a,b,c,d$ are all non-zero integers. Is there a way (that doesn't include factoring or checking within a ...
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Integer solutions to $x^2 - 15 y^2 = 15$
How would one show that $x^2 - 15 y^2 = 15$ has no integer solutions ?
I got that $x = \pm \sqrt{15 (y^2 +1) }$ and then WLOG I assume that $x \in \mathbb{N}$ and $x = \sqrt{15 (y^2 +1) }$. From ...
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Prime numbers of the form $p=m^2+n^2$ such that $p \mid m^3+n^3-4$
Find all prime numbers $p$, for which there are positive integers $m$ and $n$ such that $p=m^2+n^2$ and $p \mid m^3+n^3-4$.
I simplified this a little bit.
$$m^2+n^2 \mid m^3+n^3-4 =(m+n)(m^2+n^2-mn)...
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A bizarre expression for cardinality involving summation of roots and floor function
Show that number of triples $(a,b,c)$ with $a,b,c\in [1,n]$ such that $ab=c$ is given by
$$\bigl|\bigl\{(a,b,c)\in [1,n]^3:ab=c\bigr\}\bigr|=2\sum_{i=1}^{\left\lfloor\sqrt{n}\right\rfloor}\Big(\...
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Number of solutions to Markov Diophantine equation mod $p$
I am interested in the number of solutions $(x,y,z)\pmod{p}$ (with $p\ne2,3$) to
$$x^2+y^2+z^2-3xyz\equiv0\pmod{p}$$
See Markov numbers. The solutions are ordered triples and do not include $(0,0,0)$. ...
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find solutions to following equations?
This is an interview question. There are a total of 100 coins of values 5, 1, 0.2.
I need to find a solution that satisfies the following constraints.
1) The total number of coins must be 100.
2) ...
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An equation defined by norm
Let $f$ be an Eisenstein polynomial of degree $n$ and the prime $p$. $\alpha$ is a root of $f$. Let $\mathbb{Q}(\alpha)=K$, Prove that for any $\gamma\in O_K$, there exist $a\in \mathbb{Z}$, such that ...
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Number of integral solutions to elliptic curve $\binom n2=\binom m3$.
I am wondering if there are infinitely many integral solutions to the equation:
$$ {n \choose 2} = {m \choose 3}. $$
Also, do the solutions have a general form?
From what I know, this is an elliptic ...
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Books on polynomial Pell equations
I am interested in polynomial Pell equations and their links with polynomial continued fractions, Padè approximants and the conditions under which they are solvable.
Could you suggest me some books ...
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Solve the equation below for all m and n which are positive integers
Find all positive integers $m$ and $n$ such that
$$m^2+2\cdot 3^n=m(2^{n+1}-1).$$
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Solve the diophantine equation 71x +29y = 101
Solve the diophantine equation 71x +29y = 101
1.Euclidean algorithm
71 = 29*2 + 13
29 = 29*2 + 3
13 = 3*4 + 1
3 = 3*1 + 0
GCD(71,29) = 1
2. Write as linear equation (Euclidean algorithm ...
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All natural number solutions of the equation [closed]
Can you find all natural number solutions of this equation?
I tried puting it in wolfram alpha and some other math problem solvers but they just solve it for one solution $$x = 2$$ and $$y = 1$$
$$y^{...
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Solving a non linear diophantine equation $px+y^{p-1}=2017$ [duplicate]
I had been tasked in an exam to solve this equation:
$px+y^{p-1}=2017$ where $p$ is a positive prime number, and $x$ and $y$ are natural numbers.
I was able to prove that if $p≥5$ then $p=7$, so now I ...
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Do there exist (non-trivial) prime solutions to the equations $p^2 = 1$ mod $q$, $q = 1$ mod $p$?
Question:
Do there exist odd primes $p$ and $q$ such that
$$p^2 = 1 + qt,\quad q = 1 + ps$$
for some positive integers $s,t$? I've written some code which has verified that no solutions exist for $p,q ...
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Is there better method than this one to solve quadratic diophantine equations?
Say we have the quadratic Diophantine equation :
$4x^2+9y^2=100$
I'm not really sure what the usual method to find integer solutions to these equations are , but one way I thought of was the ...
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Solve $a^3+b^3+3ab=1$ with $(a,b)\in \Bbb{Z}^2$
Solve the following equation for $(a,b)\in \Bbb{Z}^2$:
$$a^3+b^3+3ab=1$$
I tried all of the standard techniques I know. I tried modular arithmetic:
$$a^3+b^3+3ab\equiv 1 \pmod{3} $$
$$a^3+b^3\...
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How do you solve $xy=8$ and $x^y=y^x$? [duplicate]
I know answers are $4$ and $2$ but can't solve this.
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Infinitely many integer solutions of a cubic equation
Is it true that there are infinitely many pairs of integers $(m,n)$ such that
$m^3 + 5n^3 + m^2n = 1$? Or maybe $m^3 + 5n^3 + m^2n = -1$? The point is that I am trying to find a description of an ...
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Are the binomial coefficients unique?
Let $a,x,b,y$ be integers.
Can we find rationals $u,v,w,t$ such that $$(ax+by)^3=ux^3+vx^2y+wxy^2+ty^3\neq 0$$
where $$(u,v,w,t)\neq ( 1, 3a^2b, 3ab^2, 1)$$
The answer looks trivial but can one prove ...
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Can the solution to $n^2=pq+y^2$ help with the Golbach conjecture?
This question was inspired by the following question.
https://mathoverflow.net/questions/132532/goldbachs-conjecture-and-eulers-idoneal-numbers
Here, we are not looking to factor an integer $N$. ...
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Is there a way to find positive values for unknown of Diophantine Equations?
I have a equation as follow ax+by =c where the value of x and y are unknown. This is a 2 ...
