Glasnik Matematicki, Vol. 55, No. 2 (2020), 237-252.

HIGH RANK ELLIPTIC CURVES INDUCED BY RATIONAL DIOPHANTINE TRIPLES

Andrej Dujella and Juan Carlos Peral

Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Bijenička cesta 30, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
e-mail: duje@math.hr

Departamento de Matemáticas, Universidad del País Vasco, Aptdo. 644, 48080 Bilbao, Spain
e-mail: juancarlos.peral@ehu.es

Dedicated to the memory of our friend and coauthor Julián Aguirre

Abstract.   A rational Diophantine triple is a set of three nonzero rational a,b,c with the property that ab+1, ac+1, bc+1 are perfect squares. We say that the elliptic curve y2 = (ax+1)(bx+1)(cx+1) is induced by the triple {a,b,c}. In this paper, we describe a new method for construction of elliptic curves over ℚ with reasonably high rank based on a parametrization of rational Diophantine triples. In particular, we construct an elliptic curve induced by a rational Diophantine triple with rank equal to 12, and an infinite family of such curves with rank ≥ 7, which are both the current records for that kind of curves.

2010 Mathematics Subject Classification.   11G05, 11D09

Key words and phrases.   Elliptic curves, Diophantine triples, rank

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https://doi.org/10.3336/gm.55.2.05

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