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NOTES ON THE K-RATIONAL DISTANCE PROBLEM

Part of: Diophantine equations Arithmetic algebraic geometry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2020

NGUYEN XUAN THO Open the ORCID record for NGUYEN XUAN THO [Opens in a new window]
NGUYEN XUAN THO*
Affiliation:
School of Applied Mathematics and Informatics, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, 1 Dai Co Viet Road, Hanoi, Vietnam
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e-mail: tho.nguyenxuan1@hust.edu.vn
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Abstract

Let K be an algebraic number field. We investigate the K-rational distance problem and prove that there are infinitely many nonisomorphic cubic number fields and a number field of degree n for every $n\geq 2$ in which there is a point in the plane of a unit square at K-rational distances from the four vertices of the square.

Keywords

Diophantine equationsrational distance problemsolutions in number fields

MSC classification

Primary: 11D72: Equations in many variables
Secondary: 11G30: Curves of arbitrary genus or genus $ne 1$ over global fields
Type
Research Article
Information
Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 104 , Issue 1 , August 2021 , pp. 40 - 44
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© 2020 Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc.

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Footnotes

The author is partially supported by the Vietnam National Foundation for Science and Technology Development (grant number 101.04-2019.314).

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