# Diophantine quintuple conjecture

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 Posted by: maxal on: November 22nd, 2008
Definition   A set of m positive integers is called a Diophantine -tuple if is a perfect square for all .
Conjecture  (1)   Diophantine quintuple does not exist.

It would follow from the following stronger conjecture [Da]:

Conjecture  (2)   If is a Diophantine quadruple and , then

It was proved in [Db] that there are only finitely many Diophantine quintuples and no Diophantine sextuples.

Conjecture (2) is motivated by an observation of [AHS] that every Diophantine triple can be extended to a Diophantine quadruple

## Bibliography

[Da] A. Dujella Diophantine -tuples, a survey of the main problems and results concerning Diophantine m-tuples.

[Db] A. Dujella, There are only finitely many Diophantine quintuples, J. Reine Angew. Math. 566 (2004), 183-214.

[AHS] J. Arkin, V. E. Hoggatt and E. G. Strauss, On Euler's solution of a problem of Diophantus, Fibonacci Quart. 17 (1979), 333-339.

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