Indian Journal of Science and Technology
DOI: 10.17485/IJST/v16i41.2338
Year: 2023, Volume: 16, Issue: 41, Pages: 3599-3604
Original Article
M Mahalakshmi1, J Kannan2*, A Deepshika1, K Kaleeswari2
1Research Scholar, Department of Mathematics, Ayya Nadar Janaki Ammal College (Autonomous, affiliated to Madurai Kamaraj University), Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu, India
2Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Ayya Nadar Janaki Ammal College (Autonomous, affiliated to Madurai Kamaraj University), Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu, India
*Corresponding Author
Email: [email protected]
Received Date:14 September 2023, Accepted Date:24 September 2023, Published Date:31 October 2023
Objectives: The specified problem addressed here is the existence and non-existence of Exponential Diophantine triangles over triangular numbers ( ). Methods: An Exponential Diophantine triangle over triangular numbers is defined as a triangle with sides and where and are non - negative integers such that . To prove the existence of such triangles, negative Pell’s equation and its solutions are used along with some basic number theoretic concepts. To verify the non-existence, the well-known Catalan’s conjecture, binomial expansion, and various theories concerning congruence are employed. Findings: Here it is proved that, for five different choices of sides, an Exponential Diophantine triangle over can be constructed. In particular, infinitely many such triangles can be found. For some particular choice of sides, Python coding is displayed along with its output to verify the existence of required triangles. On the other side, another five different choices of sides are considered and it is shown that no considered type of triangles exists in these cases. Novelty: The idea of solving an exponential Diophantine equation and the idea of constructing triangles under some conditions using Diophantine equations already exists in the mathematical society. This article is created uniquely by combining these two concepts along with the innovative usage of exponential Diophantine equations.
Keywords: Exponential Diophantine triangle, Exponential Diophantine Triangle over triangular numbers, Exponential Diophantine equation, Triangles, Triangular numbers
© 2023 Mahalakshmi et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Published By Indian Society for Education and Environment (iSee)
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