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Five squares in arithmetic progression over quadratic fields

Number Theory 2014-11-14 v4

Abstract

We give several criteria to show over which quadratic number fields Q(sqrt{D}) there should exists a non-constant arithmetic progressions of five squares. This is done by translating the problem to determining when some genus five curves C_D defined over Q have rational points, and then using a Mordell-Weil sieve argument among others. Using a elliptic Chabauty-like method, we prove that the only non-constant arithmetic progressions of five squares over Q(sqrt{409}), up to equivalence, is 7^2, 13^2, 17^2, 409, 23^2. Furthermore, we give an algorithm that allow to construct all the non-constant arithmetic progressions of five squares over all quadratic fields. Finally, we state several problems and conjectures related to this problem.

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@article{arxiv.0909.1663,
  title  = {Five squares in arithmetic progression over quadratic fields},
  author = {Enrique González-Jiménez and Xavier Xarles},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0909.1663},
  year   = {2014}
}

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To appear in Revista Matem\'atica Iberoamericana

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