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48 more solutions of Martin Davis’s quaternary quartic equation
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Abstract:

We find 48 more solutions to a Diophantine equation investigated by Martin Davis. Before our work, only two solutions were known. Construction of the new solutions required the factorization of several large integers. Because the equation relates to Hilbert’s Tenth Problem it is desirable to know if it has only finitely many solutions. An elaborate argument is given for the conjecture that the equation has infinitely many solutions in integers.
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  • © Copyright 1995 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Math. Comp. 64 (1995), 1717-1731
  • MSC: Primary 11D25; Secondary 11Y50
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0025-5718-1995-1308461-7
  • MathSciNet review: 1308461