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Existence of a strong Diophantine quadruple

Problèmes ouverts — A. Dujella · 2026 · ★★★★★

Statement

Problem 1.15 (Dujella, 2026). Is there any strong Diophantine quadruple, i.e. a set of four non-zero rationals $\{a_1,a_2,a_3,a_4\}$ such that $a_ia_j+1$ are perfect squares for all $1 \leqslant i,j \leqslant 4$?

Remark. There are examples of ``almost'' strong Diophantine quadruples, where all conditions for a strong quadruple are satisfied except that the condition that $a_3a_4+1$ is a square is not satisfied, e.g. $\{\frac{140}{51}, \frac{2223}{3046}, \frac{278817}{33856}, \frac{3182740}{17661}\}$ (Dujella-Petričević, Experiment. Math. 17 (2008), 83–89), but it is not known whether there are infinitely many such examples.

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Source & credits

Origin : Andrej Dujella, Open problems on Diophantine m-tuples and elliptic curves (26 juillet 2026), Problème 1.15

Reproduit à des fins pédagogiques non commerciales, avec attribution à l'auteur. Problème de recherche ouvert : aucune solution connue à ce jour.

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