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Counterexamples to Dujella's conjecture on integral points on the elliptic curve attached to a Diophantine triple

Ana Jurasić, Matej Jurasić

math.NTarXiv:2608.22635

Abstract

A set \a,b,c\ of distinct positive integers is called a Diophantine triple if ab+1, ac+1, and bc+1 are perfect squares. Dujella formulated the conjecture that the only integral x-coordinates on the attached elliptic curve y2=(ax+1)(bx+1)(cx+1) are 0,d-,d+, together with -1 when the triple contains 1, where d=a+b+c+2abc 2(ab+1)(ac+1)(bc+1). The weaker question was stated as Problem 4.8 in Dujella's list of open problems: must every integral point with x-1 make ax+1, bx+1, and cx+1 all perfect squares? We construct infinitely many triples \5,115,c\ admitting an integral point with x-1 for which all three factors are nonsquares.

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