English

There is no Diophantine quintuple

Number Theory 2018-03-28 v2

Abstract

A set of mm positive integers {a1,a2,,am}\{a_1, a_2, \dots , a_m\} is called a Diophantine mm-tuple if aiaj+1a_i a_j + 1 is a perfect square for all 1i<jm1 \le i < j \le m. In 2004 Dujella proved that there is no Diophantine sextuple and that there are at most finitely many Diophantine quintuples. In particular, a folklore conjecture concerning Diophantine mm-tuples states that no Diophantine quintuple exists at all. In this paper we prove this conjecture.

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@article{arxiv.1610.04020,
  title  = {There is no Diophantine quintuple},
  author = {Bo He and Alain Togbè and Volker Ziegler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.04020},
  year   = {2018}
}
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