Hone, Andrew N.W. (2021) Heron triangles with two rational medians and Somos-5 sequences. Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, . ISSN 0024-6115. (Submitted) (KAR id:89745)
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Abstract
Triangles with integer length sides and integer area are known as Heron triangles. Taking rescaling freedom into account, one can apply the same name when all sides and the area are rational numbers. A perfect triangle is a Heron triangle with all three medians being rational, and it is a longstanding conjecture that no such triangle exists. However, Buchholz and Rathbun showed that there are infinitely many Heron triangles with two rational medians, an infinite subset of which are associated with rational points on an elliptic curve E(Q) with Mordell-Weil group Z × Z/2Z, and they observed a connection with a pair of Somos-5 sequences. Here we make the latter connection more precise by providing explicit formulae for the integer side lengths, the two rational medians, and the area in this infinite family of Heron triangles. The proof uses a combined approach to Somos-5 sequences and associated Quispel-Roberts-Thompson (QRT) maps in the plane, from several different viewpoints: complex analysis, real dynamics, and reduction modulo a prime.
Item Type: | Article |
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Projects: | Projects 26013 not found. Projects 23085 not found. |
Subjects: |
Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science) Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science) > QA101 Arithmetic Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science) > QA351 Special functions Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science) > QA440 Geometry |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science |
Depositing User: | Andrew Hone |
Date Deposited: | 12 Aug 2021 15:54 UTC |
Last Modified: | 12 Aug 2021 15:54 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/89745 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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