Quartic Rational Diophantine Quadruples and the Euler Surface
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| author | Andrašek, Alen Kazalicki, Matija Vlah, Domagoj |
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| contents | We prove that there exist infinitely many quartic rational Diophantine quadruples, that is, sets of four pairwise distinct nonzero rational numbers whose pairwise products increased by 1 are fourth powers in Q. To the best of our knowledge, no examples of such quadruples were previously known. Our construction is motivated by computer experiments and leads naturally to the classical Euler surface E:X^4+Y^4=Z^4+W^4.
We show that every rational point on a suitable Zariski-open subset of E yields a quartic rational Diophantine quadruple, thereby obtaining a rational map from the Euler surface to the parameter space of quartic quadruples. In particular, Euler's classical parametrization produces the first explicit infinite family of quartic rational Diophantine quadruples. We also explain that the same mechanism extends to arbitrary exponents k>1, with the Euler surface replaced by the Fermat--Euler surface E_k:X^k+Y^k=Z^k+W^k.
For even k, every rational point on a suitable open subset of E_k gives rise to a kth power rational Diophantine quadruple, while for odd k one obtains such quadruples on the locus where W/Z is a square. |
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| spellingShingle | Quartic Rational Diophantine Quadruples and the Euler Surface Andrašek, Alen Kazalicki, Matija Vlah, Domagoj Number Theory We prove that there exist infinitely many quartic rational Diophantine quadruples, that is, sets of four pairwise distinct nonzero rational numbers whose pairwise products increased by 1 are fourth powers in Q. To the best of our knowledge, no examples of such quadruples were previously known. Our construction is motivated by computer experiments and leads naturally to the classical Euler surface E:X^4+Y^4=Z^4+W^4. We show that every rational point on a suitable Zariski-open subset of E yields a quartic rational Diophantine quadruple, thereby obtaining a rational map from the Euler surface to the parameter space of quartic quadruples. In particular, Euler's classical parametrization produces the first explicit infinite family of quartic rational Diophantine quadruples. We also explain that the same mechanism extends to arbitrary exponents k>1, with the Euler surface replaced by the Fermat--Euler surface E_k:X^k+Y^k=Z^k+W^k. For even k, every rational point on a suitable open subset of E_k gives rise to a kth power rational Diophantine quadruple, while for odd k one obtains such quadruples on the locus where W/Z is a square. |
| title | Quartic Rational Diophantine Quadruples and the Euler Surface |
| topic | Number Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19140 |