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Given two relatively prime numbers $a$ and $b$, it is known that exactly one of the two Diophantine equations has a nonnegative integral solution $(x,y)$: $$ ax + by \ =\ \frac{(a-1)(b-1)}{2}\quad \mbox{ and }\quad 1 + ax + by \ =\…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Hung Viet Chu , Rishabh Gulecha , Sicheng Guo , Nathanael Johnson , Steven J. Miller , Yeju Shin

This paper is concerned with the diophantine system, $\sum_{i=1}^{s_1} x_i^r=\sum_{i=1}^{s_2} y_i^r,\, r=1,\,2,\,\ldots,\,k, $ where $s_1$ and $s_2$ are integers such that the total number of terms on both sides, that is, $s_1+s_2,$ is as…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-03-01 Ajai Choudhry

The subject matter of this work are the linear, three variable diophantine equation ax+by+cz=d (1), and the diophantine system ax+by+cz=d (2) ex+fy+gz=h with the coefficients a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h being integers. Introductory number theory books,…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2008-05-13 Konstantine Zelator

This paper is devoted to the study of a problem of Cassels in multiplicative Diophantine approximation which involves minimising values of a product of affine linear forms computed at integral points. It was previously known that values of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-01-15 Alexander Gorodnik , Pankaj Vishe

In the second part of the series papers, we set out to study the algorithmic efficiency of sparse sensing. Stemmed from co-prime sensing, we propose a generalized framework, termed Diophantine sensing, which utilizes generic Diophantine…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Hanshen Xiao , Beining Zhou , Guoqiang Xiao

We give an efficient algorithm for finding sparse approximate solutions to linear systems of equations with nonnegative coefficients. Unlike most known results for sparse recovery, we do not require {\em any} assumption on the matrix other…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-01-09 Aditya Bhaskara , Ananda Theertha Suresh , Morteza Zadimoghaddam

In this work, we accomplish three goals. First, we determine the entire family of positive integer solutions to the three- variable Diophantine equation, xy=z^2; for n=2,3,4,5,6. For n=2, we obtain a 3-parameter family of solutions; for…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2013-07-23 Konstantine Zelator

In this paper, we use some extension of the Cayley-Hamilton theorem to find a family of matrices with integer entries that satisfy the non-linear Diophantine equation $ x^{n}+y^{p}=z^{q}$ where $n,p$ and $q$ are arbitrary positive integers.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-08-31 I. Kaddoura , B. Mourad

We consider a system of integer polynomials of the same degree with non-singular local zeros and in many variables. Generalising the work of Birch (1962) we find quantitative asymptotics (in terms of the maximum of the absolute value of the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-11-10 Jan-Willem M. van Ittersum

Let $s(n)$ be the number of nonzero bits in the binary digital expansion of the integer $n$. We study, for fixed $k,\ell,m$, the Diophantine system $$ s(ab)=k, \quad s(a)=\ell,\quad \mbox{and }\quad s(b)=m, $$ in odd integer variables…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-12-07 Hajime Kaneko , Thomas Stoll

In this paper, we establish hybrid results on Diophantine approximation with primes from short intervals. In particular, we prove the following result in a slightly modified form: If $\alpha$ is an irrational number having a continued…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Stephan Baier , Sayantan Roy

We obtain a polynomial-time algorithm that, given input (A, b), where A=(B|N) is an integer mxn matrix, m<n, with nonsingular mxm submatrix B and b is an m-dimensional integer vector, finds a nonnegative integer solution to the system Ax=b…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-04-03 Iskander Aliev

Binary quadratic Diophantine equations are of interest from the viewpoint of computational complexity theory. They contain as special cases many examples of natural problems apparantly occupying intermediate stages in the P-NP hierarchy,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2011-08-02 J. C. Lagarias

We solve Diophantine equations of the type $ a \, (x^3 \!+ \! y^3 \!+ \! z^3 ) = (x \! + \! y \! + \! z)^3$, where $x,y,z$ are integer variables, and the coefficient $a\neq 0$ is rational. We show that there are infinite families of such…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-03-14 Bogdan A. Dobrescu , Patrick J. Fox

This paper investigates the exponential Diophantine equation of the form $a^x+b=c^y$, where $a, b, c$ are given positive integers with $a,c \ge 2$, and $x,y$ are positive integer unknowns. We define this form as a "Type-I transcendental…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Zeyu Cai

In this paper, first, we prove that the Diophantine system \[f(z)=f(x)+f(y)=f(u)-f(v)=f(p)f(q)\] has infinitely many integer solutions for $f(X)=X(X+a)$ with nonzero integers $a\equiv 0,1,4\pmod{5}$. Second, we show that the above…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-06-13 Yong Zhang , Zhongyan Shen

In this note, we find all the solutions of the Diophantine equation x^2 +2^a.3^b.11^c=y^n in nonnegative integers a, b, c, x, y, n>= 3 with x and y coprime.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2012-01-04 Ismail Naci Cangul , Musa Demirci , Ilker Inam , Florian Luca , Gokhan Soydan

In this paper, we solve Diophantine equation in the tittle in nonnegative integers m,n, and a. In order to prove our result, we use lower bounds for linear forms in logarithms and and a version of the Baker-Davenport reduction method in…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-01-01 Zafer Şiar , Refik Keskin

A scalar integer partition problem asks for a number of nonnegative integer solutions to a linear Diophantine equation with integer positive coefficients. The manuscript discusses an algorithm of derivation of linear relations involving the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Boris Y. Rubinstein

Let $\lambda_i, \mu_j$ be non-zero real numbers not all of the same sign and let $a_i, b_k$ be non-zero integers not all of the same sign. We investigate a mixed Diophantine system of the shape \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} \left|…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-08-02 Constantinos Poulias