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An unexpected meeting between the $P^{3}_{1}$-set and the cubic-triangular numbers

Number Theory 2020-01-31 v1

Abstract

A set of mm positive integers {x1,,xm}\{x_{1},\ldots,x_{m}\} is called a P13P^{3}_{1}-set of size mm if the product of any three elements in the set increased by one is a cube integer. A P13P^{3}_{1}-set SS is said to be extendible if there exists an integer y∉Sy\not\in S such that S{y}S\cup\{y\} still a P13P^{3}_{1}-set. Now, let consider the Diophantine equation u(u+1)/2=v3u(u+1)/2=v^{3} whose integer solutions produce what we called cubic-triangular numbers. The purpose of this paper is to prove simultaneously that the P13P^{3}_{1}-set {1,2,13}\{1,2,13\} is non-extendible and n=1n=1 is the unique cubic-triangular number by showing that the two problems meet on the Diophantine equation 2x3y3=12x^{3}-y^{3}=1 that we solve using pp-adic analysis.

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@article{arxiv.2001.11407,
  title  = {An unexpected meeting between the $P^{3}_{1}$-set and the cubic-triangular numbers},
  author = {Sadek Bouroubi and Ali Debbache},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.11407},
  year   = {2020}
}
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