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A230240 Values of N for which the equation x^2 - 9*y^2 = N has integer solutions. 6

%I #26 Apr 08 2024 15:39:55

%S 0,1,4,7,9,13,16,19,25,27,28,31,36,37,40,43,45,49,52,55,61,63,64,67,

%T 72,73,76,79,81,85,88,91,97,99,100,103,108,109,112,115,117,121,124,

%U 127,133,135,136,139,144,145,148,151,153,157,160,163,169,171,172

%N Values of N for which the equation x^2 - 9*y^2 = N has integer solutions.

%C This equation is a Pellian equation of the form x^2 - D^2*y^2 = N. A042965 covers the case D=1.

%C Also numbers that are congruent to {0,1,4,7,9,13,16,19,25,27,28,31} mod 36. - _Keyang Li_, Apr 05 2024

%H Colin Barker, <a href="/A230240/b230240.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..1000</a>

%H <a href="/index/Rec#order_13">Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients</a>, signature (1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,-1).

%F G.f.: x^2*(5*x^11 +3*x^10 +x^9 +2*x^8 +6*x^7 +3*x^6 +3*x^5 +4*x^4 +2*x^3 +3*x^2 +3*x +1) / ((x -1)^2*(x +1)*(x^2 -x +1)*(x^2 +1)*(x^2 +x +1)*(x^4 -x^2 +1)).

%e For N=55, the equation x^2 - 9*y^2 = 55 has solutions (X,Y) = (8,1) and (28,9).

%o (PARI)

%o \\ Values of n for which the equation x^2 - d^2*y^2 = n has integer solutions.

%o \\ e.g. allpellsq(3, 20) gives [0,1,4,7,9,13,16,19]

%o allpellsq(d, nmax) = {

%o local(v=[0], n, w);

%o for(n=1, nmax,

%o w=pellsq(d, n);

%o if(#w>0, v=concat(v, n))

%o );

%o v

%o }

%o \\ All integer solutions to x^2-d^2*y^2=n.

%o \\ e.g. pellsq(5, 5200) gives [265,51;140,24;85,9]

%o pellsq(d, n) = {

%o local(m=Mat(), f, x, y);

%o fordiv(n, f,

%o if(f*f>n, break);

%o if((n-f^2)%(2*f*d)==0,

%o y=(n-f^2)\(2*f*d);

%o x=d*y+f;

%o m=concat(m, [x,y]~)

%o )

%o );

%o m~

%o }

%Y Cf. A042965, A230239.

%K nonn,easy

%O 1,3

%A _Colin Barker_, Oct 13 2013

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