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On a class of insoluble binary quadratic diophantine equations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2016

Franz Halter-Koch*
Affiliation:
Institut für Mathematik, Karl-Franzens-Universität Halbärthgasse 1/I A-8010 Graz, Österreich
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The binary quadratic diophantine equation

is of interest in the class number problem for real quadratic number fields and was studied in recent years by several authors (see [4], [5], [2] and the literature cited there).

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Research Article
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Copyright © Editorial Board of Nagoya Mathematical Journal 1991

References

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