Some experiments with Ramanujan-Nagell type Diophantine equations
Abstract
Stiller proved that the Diophantine equation has exactly six solutions in positive integers. Motivated by this result we are interested in constructions of Diophantine equations of Ramanujan-Nagell type with many solutions. Here, (thus are not necessarily positive) and are given integers. In particular, we prove that for each there exists an infinite set containing pairs of integers such that for each we have is square-free and the Diophantine equation has at least four solutions in positive integers. Moreover, we construct several Diophantine equations of the form with , each containing five solutions in non-negative integers. %For example the equation has exactly five solutions with . We also find new examples of equations having six solutions in positive integers, e.g. the following Diophantine equations has exactly six solutions: \begin{equation*} \begin{array}{ll} x^2= 57\cdot 2^{n}+117440512 & n=0, 14, 16, 20, 24, 25, x^2= 165\cdot 2^{n}+26404 & n=0, 5, 7, 8, 10, 12. \end{array} \end{equation*} Moreover, based on an extensive numerical calculations we state several conjectures on the number of solutions of certain parametric families of the Diophantine equations of Ramanujan-Nagell type.
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@article{arxiv.1409.8132,
title = {Some experiments with Ramanujan-Nagell type Diophantine equations},
author = {Maciej Ulas},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.8132},
year = {2014}
}
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14 pages, to appear in Galsnik Matematicki