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- 2019
A polynomial variant of a problem of Diophantus and its consequencesDOI: 10.3336/gm.54.1.03 Keywords: Diophantine m-tuples, polynomials Abstract: Sa?etak In this paper we prove that every Diophantine quadruple in ? [X] is regular. In other words, we prove that if {a, b, c, d} is a set of four non-zero elements of ?[X], not all constant, such that the product of any two of its distinct elements increased by 1 is a square of an element of ?[X], then (a+b-c-d)2=4(ab+1)(cd+1). Some consequences of the above result are that for an arbitrary n? there does not exist a set of five non-zero elements from ?[X], which are not all constant, such that the product of any two of its distinct elements increased by n is a square of an element of ?[X]. Furthermore, there can exist such a set of four non-zero elements of ?[X] if and only if n is a square
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