University of New Mexico UNM Digital Repository Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications Academic Department Resources 2014 Solving Diophantine Equations Florentin Smarandache University of New Mexico, [email protected] Octavian Cira Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/math_fsp Part of the Logic and Foundations Commons, Number Theory Commons, Other Applied Mathematics Commons, Other Mathematics Commons, and the Special Functions Commons Recommended Citation Smarandache, Florentin and Octavian Cira. "Solving Diophantine Equations." (2014). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/math_fsp/258 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Academic Department Resources at UNM Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications by an authorized administrator of UNM Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]. Solving Diophantine Equations Octavian Cira and Florentin Smarandache 2014 2 Preface In recent times the we witnessed an explosion of Number Theory prob- lems that are solved using mathematical software and powerful comput- ers. The observation that the number of transistors packed on integrated circuits doubles every two years made by Gordon E. Moore in 1965 is still accurate to this day. With ever increasing computing power more and more mathematical problems can be tacked using brute force. At the same time the advances in mathematical software made tools like Maple, Math- ematica, Matlab or Mathcad widely available and easy to use for the vast majority of the mathematical research community. This tools don’t only perform complex computations at incredible speeds but also serve as a great tools for symbolic computation, as proving tools or algorithm de- sign. The online meeting of the two authors lead to lively exchange of ideas, solutions and observation on various Number Theory problems. The ever increasing number of results, solving techniques, approaches, and algo- rithms led to the the idea presenting the most important of them in in this volume. The book offers solutions to a multitude of η–Diophantine equation proposed by Florentin Smarandache in previous works [Smaran- dache, 1993, 1999b, 2006] over the past two decades. The expertise in tack- ling Number Theory problems with the aid of mathematical software such as [Cira and Cira, 2010], [Cira, 2013, 2014a, Cira and Smarandache, 2014, Cira, 2014b,c,d,e] played an important role in producing the algorithms and programs used to solve over 62 η–Diophantine equation. There are numerous other important publications related to Diophantine Equations i ii that offer various approaches and solutions. However, this book is differ- ent from other books of number theory since it dedicates most of its space to solving Diophantine Equations involving the Smarandache function. A search for similar results in online resources like The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences reveals the lack of a concentrated effort in this direction. The brute force approach for solving η–Diophantine equation is a well known technique that checks all the possible solutions against the problem constrains to select the correct results. Historically, the proof of concept was done by Appel and Haken [1977] when they published the proof for the four color map theorem. This is considered to be the the first theorem that was proven using a computer. The approach used both the computing power of machines as well as theoretical results that narrowed down infi- nite search space to 1936 map configurations that had to be check. Despite some controversy in the ’80 when a masters student discovered a series of errors in the discharging procedure, the initial results was correct. Ap- pel and Haken went on to publish a book [Appel and Haken, 1989] that contained the entire and correct prof that every planar map is four-colorable. Recently, in 2014 an empirical results of Goldbach conjecture was pub- lished in Mathematics of Computation where Oliveira e Silva et al. [2013], [Oliveira e Silva, 2014], confirm the theorem to be true for all even num- bers not larger than 4 × 1018. The use of Smarandache function η that involves the set of all prime numbers constitutes one of the main reasons why, most of the problems proposed in this book do not have a finite number of cases. It could be possible that the unsolved problems from this book could be classified in classes of unsolved problems, and thus solving a single problem will help in solving all the unsolved problems in its class. But the authors could not classify them in such classes. The interested readers might be able to do that. In the given circumstances the authors focused on providing the most comprehensive partial solution possible, similar to other such solutions in the literature like: • Goldbach’s conjecture. In 2003 Oliveira e Silva announced that all even numbers ≤ 2 × 1016 can be expressed as a sum of two primes. iii In 2014 the partial result was extended to all even numbers smaller then 4 × 1018, [Oliveira e Silva, 2014]. • For any positive integer n, let f(n) denote the number of solutions to the Diophantine equation 4=n = 1=x + 1=y + 1=z with x, y, z posi- tive integers. The Erd˝os-Strausconjecture, [Oblath,´ 1950, Rosati, 1954, Bernstein, 1962, Tao, 2011], asserts that f(n) ≥ 1 for every n ≥ 2. Swett [2006] established that the conjecture is true for all integers for any n ≤ 1014. Elsholtz and Tao [2012] established some related re- sults on f and related quantities, for instance established the bound f(p) p3=5 + O1= log(log(p)) for all primes p. ∗ • Tutescu [1996] stated that η(n) 6= η(n + 1) for any n 2 N . On March 3rd, 2003 Weisstein published a paper stating that all the relation is valid for all numbers up to 109, [Sondow and Weisstein, 2014]. • A number n is k–hyperperfect for some integers k if n = 1 + k · s(n), where s(n) is the sum of the proper divisors of n. All k–hyperperfect numbers less than 1011 have been computed. It seems that the con- jecture ”all k–hyperperfect numbers for odd k > 1 are of the form p2 · q, with p = (3k + 4)=4 prime and q = 3k + 4 = 2p + 3 prime” is false [McCranie, 2000]. This results do not offer the solutions to the problems but they are impor- tant contributions worth mentioning. The emergence of mathematical software generated a new wave of mathematical research aided by computers. Nowadays it is almost impos- sible to conduct research in mathematics without using software solutions such as Maple, Mathematica, Matlab or Mathcad, etc. The authors used extensively Mathcad to explore and solve various Diophantine equations because of the very friendly nature of the interface and the powerful pro- gramming tools that this software provides. All the programs presented in the following chapters are in their complete syntax as used in Mathcad. The compact nature of the code and ease of interpretation made the choice of this particular software even more appropriate for use in a written pre- sentation of solving techniques. iv The empirical search programs in this book where developed and exe- cuted in Mathcad. The source code of this algorithms can be interpreted as pseudo code (the Mathcad syntax allows users to write code that is very easy to read) and thus translated to other programming languages. Although the intention of the authors was to provide the reader with a comprehensive book some of the notions are presented out of order. For example the book the primality test that used Smarandache’s function is extensively used. The first occurrences of this test preceded the definition the actual functions and its properties. However, overall, the text covers all definition and proves for each mathematical construct used. At the same time the references point to the most recent publications in literature, while results are presented in full only when the number of solutions is reasonable. For all other problems, that generate in excess of 100 double, triple or quadruple pairs, only partial results are contained in the sections of this book. Nevertheless, anyone interested in the complete list should contact the authors to obtain a electronic copy of it. Running the programs in this book will also generate the same complete list of possible solutions for any odd the problems in this book. Authors Acknowledgments We would like to thank all the collaborators that helped putting to- gether this book, especially to Codrut¸a Stoica and Cristian Mihai Cira, for the important comments and observations. Contents Preface v Contents ix List of figure x List of table xi Introduction xii 1 Prime numbers 1 1.1 Generating prime numbers . .2 1.2 Primality tests . 14 1.2.1 The test of primality η .................. 14 1.2.2 Deterministic tests . 15 1.2.3 Smarandache’s criteria of primality . 24 1.3 Decomposition product of prime factors . 32 1.3.1 Direct factorization . 35 1.3.2 Other methods of factorization . 37 1.4 Counting of the prime numbers . 39 1.4.1 Program of counting of the prime numbers . 39 1.4.2 Formula of counting of the prime numbers . 40 v vi CONTENTS 2 Smarandache’s function η 42 2.1 The properties of function η ................... 45 2.2 Programs for Kempner’s algorithm . 50 2.2.1 Applications . 53 2.2.2 Calculation the of values η function . 54 3 Divisor functions σ 58 3.1 The divisor function σ ...................... 58 3.1.1 Computing the values of σk functions . 62 3.2 k–hyperperfect numbers . 63 4 Euler’s totient function ' 64 4.1 The properties of function ' ..................