Diophantine tuples and Integral Ideals of $\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{d})$
Kalyan Chakraborty, Shubham Gupta, Krishnarjun Krishnamoorthy
Published: 2025/9/8
Abstract
Suppose $n$ is the fundamental discriminant associated with a quadratic extension of $\mathbb{Q}$. We show that for every Diophantine $m$-tuple $ \{t_1, t_2, \ldots, t_m\} $ with the property $ D(n) $, there exists integral ideals $ \mathfrak{t}_1, \mathfrak{t}_2, \ldots, \mathfrak{t}_m $ of $ \mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{n}) $ and $c\in \{1,2\}$ such that $ t_i= c\mathcal{N}(\mathfrak{t}_i) $ for $ i=1,2, \ldots, m $. Here, $ \mathcal{N}(\cdot) $ denotes the norm map from $\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{n})$ to $\mathbb{Q}$. Moreover, we explicitly construct the above ideals for Diophantine pairs $\{a_1, a_2\}$ whenever $\gcd(a_1, a_2) = 1$.