Solutions of a class of quartic Thue inequalities (Q5919110)

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Solutions of a class of quartic Thue inequalities
scientific article; zbMATH DE number 7410372

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    Solutions of a class of quartic Thue inequalities (English)
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    18 October 2021
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    The authors claim that for integers \(3 \le c\) and \(0< |\mu| \le 2c\) the only solutions of the Thue equation \[ x^4 + 4(c^2-1)x^3y + (8c^2+6)x^2y^2 + 4(c^2-1)xy^3 + y^4 = \mu \] are \((x,y) \in \{(\pm 1,0), (0, \pm 1)\}\), yielding \(\mu=1\). But there exist further solutions \((x,y)= \pm(1,-1)\), giving \(\mu = 16\). The authors apply Tzanakis' method to transform the Thue equation into a system of Pell equations, but overlooked that \(\gcd(x,y)=1\) does not imply \(\gcd(U,V,Z)=1\) for the solutions of the Pell equations, and that these need not be positive. So Proposition 3.1 is too weak to prove the main Theorem 1.1.
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    system of Pell equations
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    method of Tzanakis
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    linear forms in logarithms
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