
The number of Diophantine quintuples
Author(s) -
Yasutsugu Fujita
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
glasnik matematički
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.332
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1846-7989
pISSN - 0017-095X
DOI - 10.3336/gm.45.1.02
Subject(s) - mathematics , diophantine equation , discrete mathematics , arithmetic
A set {a1, ... ,am} of m distinct positive integers is called a Diophantine m-tuple if aiaj+1 is a perfect square for all i, j with 1 ≤ i < j ≤ m. It is known that there does not exist a Diophantine sextuple and that there exist only finitely many Diophantine quintuples. In this paper, we first show that for a fixed Diophantine triple {a,b,c} with a < b < c, the number of Diophantine quintuples {a,b,c,d,e} with c < d < e is at most four. Using this result, we further show that the number of Diophantine quintuples is less than 10276, which improves the bound 101930 due to Dujella