Practical solution of some families of quartic and sextic diophantine hyperelliptic equations

Abstract

Using elementary number theory we study Diophantine equations over the rational integers of the following form, $y^2=(x+a)(x+a+k)(x+b)(x+b+k)$, $y^2=c^2{x}^4+a{x}^2+b$ and $y^2=(x^2-1)(x^2-{\alpha }^2)(x^2-(\alpha +1{)}^2).$ We express their integer solutions by means of the divisors of the discriminant of $f(x),$ where $y^2=f(x)$.

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