Non-congruent numbers with arbitrarily many prime factors congruent to $3$ modulo $8$

Congruent numbers with many prime factors.

Mohammed Ben Alhocain, in an Arab manuscript of the 10th century, stated that the principal object of the theory of rational right triangles is to find a square that when increased or diminished by a certain number, m becomes a square [Dickson LE (1971) History of the Theory of Numbers (Chelsea, New York), Vol 2, Chap 16]. In modern language, this object is to find a rational point of infinite ...

Families of Non-θ-congruent Numbers with Arbitrarily Many Prime Factors

The concept of θ-congruent numbers was introduced by Fujiwara [Fu97], who showed that for primes p ≡ 5, 7, 19 (mod 24), p is not a π/3-congruent number. In this paper we show the existence of two infinite families of composite non-π/3-congruent numbers and non-2π/3-congruent numbers, obtained from products of primes which are congruent to 5 modulo 24 and to 13 modulo 24 respectively. This is ac...

The Least Prime Congruent to One Modulo n

It is known that there are infinitely many primes ≡ 1 (modn) for any integer n > 1. In this paper, we use an elementary argument to prove that the least such prime satisfies p ≤ 2 − 1, where φ is the Euler totient function.

Some Families of Non-congruent Numbers

In this article we study the Tate-Shafarevich groups corresponding to 2-isogenies of the curve Ek : y 2 = x(x2 − k2) and construct infinitely many examples where these groups have odd 2-rank. Our main result is that among the curves Ek, where k = pl ≡ 1 mod 8 for primes p and l, the curves with rank 0 have density ≥ 1 2 .

Arbitrarily large neighborly families of congruent symmetric convex 3-polytopes