Diophantine triples with values in binary recurrences

Fuchs, Clemens; Luca, Florian; Szalay, Laszlo

Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa - Classe di Scienze, Série 5, Tome 7 (2008) no. 4, pp. 579-608

In this paper, we study triples $a,b$ and $c$ of distinct positive integers such that $ab+1,ac+1$ and $bc+1$ are all three members of the same binary recurrence sequence.

Classification : 11D72, 11D61, 11B37

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