Infinitely many insolvable Diophantine equations. II

Yasutsugu Fujita and Noriaki Kimura
Notes on Number Theory and Discrete Mathematics, ISSN 1310–5132
Volume 16, 2010, Number 2, Pages 16–23
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Yasutsugu Fujita
Department of Mathematics, College of Industrial Technology
Nihon University, 2-11-1 Shin-ei, Narashino, Chiba, Japan

Noriaki Kimura
Department of Mathematics, College of Industrial Technology
Nihon University, 2-11-1 Shin-ei, Narashino, Chiba, Japan

Abstract

Let f(X1, …, Xm) be a quadratic form in m variables X1, …, Xm with integer coefficients. Then it is well-known that the Diophantine equation f(X1, …, Xm) = 0 has a nontrivial solution in integers if and only if the equation has a nontrivial solution in real numbers and the congruence f(X1, …, Xm) ≡ 0 (mod N) has a nontrivial solution for every integer N > 1. Such a principle is called the Hasse principle. In this paper, we explicitly give several types of families of the Diophantine equations of degree two, not homogeneous, for which the Hasse principle fails.

Keywords

  • Hasse principle
  • Diophantine equations
  • Congruences

AMS Classification

  • 11D09
  • 11A07

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Fujita, Y., & Kimura, N. (2010). Infinitely many insolvable Diophantine equations. II. Notes on Number Theory and Discrete Mathematics, 16(2), 16-23.

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