FIBONACCI DIOPHANTINE TRIPLES. Florian Luca and László Szalay Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México, Mexico and University of West Hungary, Hungary
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1 GLASNIK MATEMATIČKI Vol , FIBONACCI DIOPHANTINE TRIPLES Florian Luca and László Szalay Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México, Mexico and University of West Hungary, Hungary Abstract. In this paper, we show that there are no three distinct positive integers a, b, c such that ab + 1, ac + 1, bc + 1 are all three Fibonacci numbers. 1. Introduction A Diophantine m-tuple is a set of {a 1,..., a m } of positive rational numbers or integers such that a i a j +1 is a square for all 1 i < j m. Diophantus found the rational quadruple {1/16, 33/16, 17/4, 105/16}, while Fermat found the integer quadruple {1, 3,, 10}. Infinitely many Diophantine quadruples of integers are known and it is conjectured that there is no Diophantine quintuples. This was almost proved by Dujella [5], who showed that there can be at most finitely many Diophantine quintuples and all of them are, at least in theory, effectively computable. In the rational case, it is not known that the size m of the Diophantine m-tuples must be bounded and a few examples with m = 6 are known by the work of Gibbs []. We also note that some generalization of this problem for squares replaced by higher powers of fixed, or variable exponents were treated by many authors see [1,, 9, 13] and [10]. In the paper [7], the following variant of this problem was treated. Let r and s be nonzero integers such that = r + 4s 0. Let u n n 0 be a binary recurrence sequence of integers satisfying the recurrence u n+ = ru n+1 + su n for all n Mathematics Subject Classification. 11B37, 11B39, 11D6. Key words and phrases. Binary recurrences, Fibonacci and Lucas numbers, Diophantine triples. 53
2 54 F. LUCA AND L. SZALAY It is well-known that if we write and β for the two roots of the characteristic equation x rx s = 0, then there exist constants γ, δ K = Q[] such that 1.1 u n = γ n + δβ n holds for all n 0. Assume further that the sequence u n n 0 is nondegenerate, which means that γδ 0 and /β is not root of unity. We shall also make the convention that β. A Diophantine triple with values in the set U = {u n : n 0} is a set of three distinct positive integers {a, b, c} such that ab + 1, ac + 1, bc + 1 are all in U. Note that if u n = n + 1 for all n 0, then there are infinitely many such triples namely, take a, b, c to be any distinct powers of two. The main result in [7] shows that the above example is representative for the sequences u n n 0 with real roots for which there exist infinitely many Diophantine triples with values in U. The precise result proved there is the following. Theorem 1.1. Assume that u n n 0 is a nondegenerate binary recurrence sequence with > 0 such that there exist infinitely many sextuples of nonnegative integers a, b, c; x, y, z with 1 a < b < c such that 1. ab + 1 = u x, ac + 1 = u y, bc + 1 = u z. Then β {±1}, δ {±1},, γ Z. Furthermore, for all but finitely many of the sextuples a, b, c; x, y, z as above one has δβ z = δβ y = 1 and one of the following holds: i δβ x = 1. In this case, one of δ or δ is a perfect square; ii δβ x = 1. In this case, x {0, 1}. No finiteness result was proved for the case when < 0. The case δβ z = 1 is not hard to handle. When δβ z 1, results from Diophantine approximations relying on the Subspace Theorem, as well as on the finiteness of the number of solutions of nondegenerate unit equations with variables in a finitely generated multiplicative group and bounds for the greatest common divisor of values of rational functions at units points in the number fields setting, allow one to reduce the problem to elementary considerations concerning polynomials. The Fibonacci sequence F n n 0 is the binary recurrent sequence given by r, s = 1, 1, F 0 = 0 and F 1 = 1. It has = 1 + 5/ and β = 1 5/. According to Theorem 1.1, there should be only finitely many triples of distinct positive integers {a, b, c} such that ab+1, ac+1, bc+1 are all three Fibonacci numbers. Our main result here is that in fact there are no such triples. Theorem 1.. There do not exist positive integers a < b < c such that 1.3 ab + 1 = F x, ac + 1 = F y, bc + 1 = F z,
3 FIBONACCI DIOPHANTINE TRIPLES 55 where x < y < z are positive integers. Let us remark that since the values n = 1,, 3 and 5 are the only positive integers n such that F n = k + 1 holds with some suitable integer k see [6], it follows from Theorem 1. that all the solutions of equation.1 under the more relaxed condition 0 < a b c are { 1, 1, Ft 1; 3, t, t, t 3; a, b, c; x, y, z =,, F t 1/; 5, t, t, t 4, t 0 mod 3; Note also that there are at least two rational solutions 0 < a < b < c, namely a, b, c; x, y, z = /3, 3, 1; 4, 7, 10, 9/, /3, 1; 9, 10, 11. It would be interesting to decide whether equation 1.3 has only finitely many rational solutions a, b, c; x, y, z with 0 < a < b < c, and in the affirmative case whether the above two are the only ones.. Proof of Theorem Preliminary results. In the sequel, we suppose that 1 a < b < c and 4 x < y < z. We write L n n 0 for the companion sequence of the Fibonacci numbers given by L 0 =, L 1 = 1 and L n+ = L n+1 + L n for all n 0. It is well-known see, for example, Ron Knott s excellent web-site on Fibonacci numbers [11], or Koshy s monograph [1], that the formulae F n = n β n β and L n = n + β n hold for all n 0, where = 1 + 5/ and β = 1 5/. We shall need the following statements. Lemma.1. The following divisibilities hold: i F u, F v = F u,v ; { u Lu,v, if ii L u, L v = u,v v u,v 1 mod ; 1 or, otherwise; { u Lu,v, if iii F u, L v = u,v v u,v 1 mod ; 1 or, otherwise. Proof. This is well-known see, for instance [3, proof of Theorem VII.]. Lemma.. The following formulae hold: F u 1 L u+1, if u 1 mod 4; F u+1 L u 1, if u 3 mod 4; F u 1 = F u L u+, if u mod 4;, if u 0 mod 4. F u+ L u Proof. This too is well-known see, for example [14, Lemma ].
4 56 F. LUCA AND L. SZALAY Lemma.3. Let u 0 be a positive integer. Put u0 β ε i = log i 1, δ i = log 1 + β 1i 1 5 for i = 1,, respectively. Here, log is the logarithm in base. Then for all integers u u 0, the two inequalities.1 u+ε L u u+ε1 and. u+δ F u u+δ1 hold. Proof. Let c 0 = 1, or 5, according to whether u n = L n or u n = F n, respectively. Obviously, } L u u + β u0 u 1 + β u 0 u F u 1 + u0 β, u c 0 c 0 c 0 which proves the upper bounds from the formulae.1 and., respectively. Similarly, } L u u β u0 u 1 β u 0 u F u 1 u0 β u c 0 c 0 c 0 lead to the lower bounds from the formulae.1 and., respectively. Lemma.4. Suppose that a > 0 and b 0 are real numbers, and that u 0 is a positive integer. Then for all integers u u 0, the inequality holds, where κ = log a + b u 0. Proof. This is obvious. a u + b u+κ Lemma.5. Assume that a, b, z are integers. Furthermore, suppose that all the expressions appearing inside the s below are also integers. Then the following hold: i If a b, then z+a z+b 4 ;, z+b 4 ii If 3a b, then z+a, 3z+b = z+a. u0 a b. Otherwise, z+a, z+b 4 = 3a b. Otherwise, z+a, 3z+b Proof. This is an easy application of the Euclidean algorithm. Lemma.6. Assume that z is an integer. Then the following hold:
5 i If z is odd, then L < F z ; ii If z is even, then L z < F z. Proof. For i, note that L FIBONACCI DIOPHANTINE TRIPLES 57 = L + 1 L + = F z + F z +, and the right hand side above is easily seen to be smaller than F z when z. For ii, we similarly have L z L z + = F z 3 + F + < F z, where the last inequality is equivalent to F z 3 + < F z, or < F z 4, which is fulfilled for z. y. Lemma.7. All positive integer solutions of the system 1.3 satisfy z Proof. The last two equations of system 1.3 imply that c divides both F y 1 and F z 1. Consequently,.3 c F y 1, F z 1. Obviously, F z = bc + 1 < c ; hence, F z < c. From.3, we obtain F z < F y. Clearly,.4 z 1 < F z < F y < y Since y 5 entails y + 1 < 4 5 y, we get z 1 < y, which easily leads to the conclusion that y z... The Proof of Theorem 1.. By Lemma.7, we have.5 Fz < F z 1, F y 1. Applying Lemma., we obtain.6 F z 1, F y 1 = F z i, F y j F z i, L y+j F z i L z+i L z+i, F y j, F y j L y+j L z+i, L y+j where i, j {±1, ±}. The values i and j depend on the residue classes of z and y modulo 4, respectively. In what follows, we let d 1, d, d 3 and d 4 denote suitable positive integers which will be defined shortly. Lemma.1 yields.7 m 1 = F z i, y j = F z i d 1. The second factor m on the right hand of.6 can be 1,, or. m = L z i, y+j = L z i d.,
6 5 F. LUCA AND L. SZALAY The third factor m 3 is again 1,, or.9 m 3 = L z+i, y j = L z+i d 3. Finally, if the fourth factor m 4 is neither 1 nor, then.10 m 4 = L z+i, y+j = L z+i d 4. We now distinguish two cases. Case 1. z 150. In this case, we ran an exhaustive computer search to detect all positive integer solutions of system 1.3. Observe that we have F x 1F y 1 a =, 4 x < y < z 150. F z 1 Going through all the eligible values for x, y and z, and checking if the above number a is an integer, we found no solution to system 1.3. Case. z > 150. In this case, Lemma.3 gives < δ 1 for F z. Hence, z < F z. If d k 5 holds for all k = 1,, 3, 4, then the subscripts z±i d k of the Fibonacci and Lucas numbers appearing in.7.10 are at most z±i 10 each. Lemma.3 now gives that ε < 0.5 and δ < 1 hold for L z±i and F z i, respectively, because z±i 10 > 14. Now formulae.5.10 lead to.11 z < F z < z i 10 which implies that z contradicting the fact that z > z i 10 < z , z+i z+i , From now on, we analyze those cases when at least one of the numbers d k for k = 1,, 3, 4, which we will denote by d, is less than five. First assume that d = 4. Then either z+η1i = y+ηj, or z+η1i = y+ηj 6, where η 1, η {±1}. If the first equality holds, then Lemma.7 leads to z = 4y + 4η j η 1 i y. Thus, z y η 1 i 4η j 10, contradicting the fact that z > 150. The second equality leads to y = 3z+3η1i 4ηj 4. In this case,.1 y + η j = 3z + 3η 1i + tj,
7 FIBONACCI DIOPHANTINE TRIPLES 59 where t = 4η η {±, 0} for η {±1}. Applying Lemma.5, we get z + η 1 i, y + η j z + η = 1 i, 3z + 3η 1i + tj 3η 1.13 η 1 i tj 14, for all η 1, η η 1, η {±1}. For the last inequality above, we used Lemma.5 together with the fact that 3η 1 η 1 tj 0. Indeed, if 3η 1 η 1 tj = 0, then 3 tj, and since t {±, 0}, j {±1, ±}, we get that t = 0, therefore η = η. Since also 3η 1 η 1 = tj = 0, we get η 1 = η 1, therefore η 1, η = η 1, η, which is not allowed. Continuing with the case d = 4, since F 14 < L 14 = 43 and z±i > 1, we get that ε < 0.5 and δ < 0.5, where these values correspond to L z±i, respectively. It now follows that F z±i z < z±i +0.5 L z Thus, z < 4 + log 43 < 116, which completes the analysis for this case. Consider now the case d = 3. The only possibility is z+η1i 6 = y+ηj for some η 1, η {±1}. Together with Lemma.7, we get z = 3y + 3η j η 1 i y. Consequently, z y η 1i 3η j, which is impossible. Assume next that d =. Then z+η1i 4 = y+ηj for some η 1, η {±1}. We get that y = z+η1i ηj. Thus, y+η j = z+η1i+tj 4 with t = η η {±4, 0}. By Lemma.5, we have z + η 1 i, y + η j z + η = 1 i, z + η 1i + tj 4 η 1 η 1i tj 1. The argument works assuming that the last number above is not zero for η 1, η η 1, η {±1}. Assume that it is. Then η 1 η 1i = tj. Clearly, tj is always a multiple of 4. If it is zero, then t = 0, so η = η. Then also η 1 η 1 i = tj = 0, therefore η 1 = η 1. Hence, η 1, η = η 1, η, which is not allowed. Assume now that t 0. Then η 1 η 1 i 0, so η 1 = η 1. Also, t 0, therefore η = η. We get that η 1 i = 4η j, therefore η 1 i = η j. Thus, i = ±1 and j = ±. In particular, z is odd and y is even. Now z + η 1 i/ is divisible by a larger power of than y + η j/. A quick inspection of formulae.7.10 defining m 1, m, m 3 and m 4 together with Lemma.1 ii and iii, shows that the only interesting cases are when k = 1 or since m 3 and m 4. Thus, η 1, η = 1, 1 or 1, 1. Hence, η 1, η = 1, 1 or 1, 1, and here we have that m 3 and m 4 anyway. This takes care of the case when η 1 η 1i tj = 0. and
8 60 F. LUCA AND L. SZALAY Continuing with d =, since z±i 4 37, Lemma.3 yields ε, δ < 0.1. We then get the estimate z < z±i L z , leading to z < log 3 < 150.5, which is a contradiction. Finally, we assume that d = 1. The equality z±i = y±j leads to z = y i ± j. Obviously, here i ± j must be positive, otherwise we would get z y. Note that in the application of Lemma., both z and y are classified according to their congruence classes modulo 4. The following table summarizes the critical cases of d = 1. Only 6 layouts in Table 1 below need further investigations the sign abbreviates a contradiction. z, y 4 i, j possible equalities consequence 1 1, 1 1, 1 = y+1 z = y + : x y mod 4 1, 1, = y+ z = y + 3 : d must be even z+1 1, = y+ z = y + 1 : z y 1 mod 4 3 1, 3 1, 1 = y+1 z = y + : d 1 must be even 4 1, 0 1, = y+ z = y + 3 : x y + 1 mod 4 z+1 1, = y+ z = y + 1 is possible d 3 = 1 5 3, 1 1, 1 = y+1 z = y + is possible d 4 = 1 z+1 6 3, 1, = y+ z = y + 1 : d must be even 1, = y+ z = y + 3 : x y + 1 mod 4 7 3, 3 1, 1 = y+1 z = y + : x y mod 4 z+1 3, 0 1, = y+ z = y + 1 : x y 1 mod 4 1, = y+ z = y + 3 is possible d 3 = 1 z 9, 1, 1 = y 1 z = y + 1 : d 1 must be even z, 1 = y+1 z = y + 3 : x y + 1 mod 4 z 10,, = y+ z = y + 4 : d must be even z 11, 3, 1 = y+1 z = y + 3 : d 1 must be even z,1 = y 1 z = y + 1 : x y 1 mod 4 z 1, 0, = y+ z = y + 4 : x y + mod 4 z 13 0, 1, 1 = y 1 z = y + 1 : x y 1 mod 4 z, 1 = y+1 z = y + 3 is possible d 4 = 1 z 14 0,, = y+ z = y + 4 : x y + mod 4 z 15 0, 3, 1 = y+1 z = y + 3 : x y + 1 mod 4 z,1 = y 1 z = y + 1 is possible d 4 = 1 z 16 0, 0, = y+ z = y + 4 is possible d 3 = 1 Table 1. The case d = 1. In what follows, we consider separately the 6 exceptional cases. The common treatment of all these cases is to go back to the system 1.3. In all
9 FIBONACCI DIOPHANTINE TRIPLES 61 exceptional cases we have z = y + s, where s {1,, 3, 4}. Hence, ab + 1 = F x,.14 ac + 1 = F z s, bc + 1 = F z, and, as previously, c F z s 1, F z 1. Clearly, while Table 1, Row 4. z 1, y 0 mod 4, z = y + 1 and F z+1, F F 1 = F z+1 L z 3 = 1,, F = L z 3 L z 3, F z 1 = F, L z+1 = 1, { L z 3, = L 1 = 1 1 or L z+1. F z+1 }, L z+1. = 1,, Therefore c 4, and we arrived at a contradiction because F z = bc contradicts z > 150. Since Table 1, Row 5. z 3, y 1 mod 4, z = y + and F z 1 = F z 3 L F z 3 we get c F z 1, F z 1 = L.7, By Lemma.6, we now have L Hence, c 1 = 1, therefore c = L, and so F z 3, b = F z+1, F z 1 = F z+1 L., F z+1 = 1,. Consequently, by the proof of Lemma = c 1 c > c 1 Fz. c 1 < L <. Fz. In view of equation.14, we get a =.15 F x = F z 3F z = F = F. By the work of Cohn [4], we get that.15 is not possible for z > 150. Table 1, Row. z 3, y 0 mod 4, z = y + 3 and L z 5 F z 3 1 = F It follows easily, by Lemma.1, that F, F z+1 = 1, L z 5, F z 1 = F z+1, L = 1, L. F, L = 1,,
10 6 F. LUCA AND L. SZALAY and L z 5, F z+1 = { L z+1, z 5 L 3 = 4 1 or } 4. Thus, c F z 3 1, F z 1. However, the inequalities a < b < c contradict the fact that z > 150. Table 1, Row 13. z 0, y 1 mod 4, z = y + 3 and.16 F z 3 1 = F z 4 Since F z 4, F z+ L z, F z 1 = F z+ L z. = F z 4, z+ F 3 =, we have c F z 1, F z 1 = L, or c F z 1, F z 1 = L. In the first case, we get L z and applying Lemma.6 we arrive at which is a contradiction. In the second case, put = c c > c Fz, c < L < 1, Fz L z Again by Lemma.6, we obtain = c 3 c > c 3 Fz. c 3 < Thus, c 3 = 1, therefore c = L, and a = F z 4, b = F z+ L Fz <.. System.14 and relations.16 lead to F x = 1 4 F z 4 F z On the one hand, since z > 150, by Lemma.3, we get x 1.67 > F x > 1 4 z z+ 1.6 > , therefore x > z 5.4. On the other hand, by combining Lemma.3 and Lemma.4 with κ < 0.01, we get x 1.6 < F x < 1 4 z z < , leading to x < z But the interval z 5.4, z 5.53 does not contain any integer, which takes care of this case.
11 FIBONACCI DIOPHANTINE TRIPLES 63 Table 1, Row 15. z 0, y 3 mod 4, z = y + 1 and F 1 = F z L z, F z 1 = F z+ L z. Since F z, F z+ = 1, we get c F 1, F z 1 = L z. Consequently, by the proof of Lemma.7, it follows that = c 4 c > c 4 Fz. L z Now Lemma.6 leads to the contradiction c 4 < L z < 1. Fz Table 1, Row 16. z 0, y 0 mod 4, z = y + 4 and Obviously, F z while, F z+ F z 4 1 = F z L z 6 = 1, L z 6 L z 6, F z+ =, F z 1 = F z+, L z L z. = 1, F z { L z 6, z+ L 4 = 7 1 or }, L z = 1,, 7. Thus, c 14, which leads to a contradiction with z > 150. The proof of the Theorem 1. is now complete. Acknowledgements. During the preparation of this paper, F. L. was supported in part by Grants SEP-CONACyT 7965 and PAPIIT 10050, and L. S. was supported in part by a János Bolyai Scholarship of HAS and the Hungarian National Foundation for Scientific Research Grants No. T MAT and K 6100 FT. References [1] Y. Bugeaud and A. Dujella, On a problem of Diophantus for higher powers, Math. Proc. Cambridge Philos. Soc , [] Y. Bugeaud and K. Gyarmati, On generalizations of a problem of Diophantus, Illinois J. Math , [3] R. D. Carmichael, On the numerical factors of the arithmetic forms n ± β n, Ann. Math /1914, [4] J. H. E. Cohn, On square Fibonacci numbers, J. London Math. Soc., , [5] A. Dujella, There are only finitely many Diophantine quintuples, J. reine angew. Math , [6] R. Finkelstein, On Fibonacci numbers which are one more than a square, J. reine angew. Math. 6/ ,
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