{ "id": "1810.06817", "version": "v1", "published": "2018-10-16T05:36:32.000Z", "updated": "2018-10-16T05:36:32.000Z", "title": "On the Diophantine equation $f(x)=2f(y)$", "authors": [ "Sanjay Bhatter", "Richa Sharma" ], "comment": "7 pages", "categories": [ "math.NT" ], "abstract": "Let $f(x)=x^{2}(x^{2}-1)(x^{2}-2)(x^{2}-3).$ We prove that the Diophantine equation $ f(x)=2f(y)$ has no solutions in positive integers $x$ and $y$, except $(x, y)=(1, 1)$.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2018-10-16T05:36:32.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "11D45", "11D41", "11D61" ], "keywords": [ "diophantine equation", "positive integers" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 7, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }