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Numbers k such that Mordell's equation y^2 = x^3 - k has no integral solutions.
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%I #37 Jul 17 2021 04:29:58

%S 3,5,6,9,10,12,14,16,17,21,22,24,29,30,31,32,33,34,36,37,38,41,42,43,

%T 46,50,51,52,57,58,59,62,65,66,68,69,70,73,75,77,78,80,82,84,85,86,88,

%U 90,91,92,93,94,96,97,98,99

%N Numbers k such that Mordell's equation y^2 = x^3 - k has no integral solutions.

%C Mordell's equation has a finite number of integral solutions for all nonzero k. Gebel computes the solutions for k < 10^5. Sequence A054504 gives k for which there are no integral solutions to y^2 = x^3 + k. See A081120 for the number of integral solutions to y^2 = x^3 - n.

%C This is the complement of A106265. - _M. F. Hasler_, Oct 05 2013

%C Numbers k such that A081120(k) = 0. - _Charles R Greathouse IV_, Apr 29 2015

%D T. M. Apostol, Introduction to Analytic Number Theory, Springer-Verlag, page 191.

%H T. D. Noe, <a href="/A081121/b081121.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..7757</a> (from Gebel, 3136 and 6789 removed by _Seth A. Troisi_, May 20 2019)

%H J. Gebel, <a href="/A001014/a001014.txt">Integer points on Mordell curves</a> [Cached copy, after the original web site tnt.math.se.tmu.ac.jp was shut down in 2017]

%H J. Gebel, A. Petho and G. Zimmer, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1000281602647">On Mordell's equation</a>, Compositio Mathematica 110 (3) (1998), 335-367. <a href="http://www.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=1602064">MR1602064</a>.

%H Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, <a href="http://mathworld.wolfram.com/MordellCurve.html">Mordell Curve</a>

%t m = 99; f[_List] := (xm = 2 xm; ym = Ceiling[xm^(3/2)];

%t Complement[Range[m], Outer[Plus, -Range[0, ym]^2, Range[-xm, xm]^3] //Flatten //Union]); xm=10; FixedPoint[f, {}] (* _Jean-François Alcover_, Apr 29 2011 *)

%Y Cf. A054504, A081120, A106265.

%K nice,nonn

%O 1,1

%A _T. D. Noe_, Mar 06 2003