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We prove a result that finishes the study of primitive arithmetic progressions consisting of squares and fifth powers that was carried out by Hajdu and Tengely in a recent paper: The only arithmetic progression in coprime integers of the form (a 2, b 2, c 2, d 5) is (1, 1, 1, 1). For the proof, we first reduce the problem to that of determining the sets of rational points on three specific hyperelliptic curves of genus 4. A 2-cover descent computation shows that there are no rational points on two of these curves. We find generators for a subgroup of finite index of the Mordell-Weil group of the last curve. Applying Chabauty’s method, we prove that the only rational points on this curve are the obvious ones.
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Siksek, S., Stoll, M. (2010). On a Problem of Hajdu and Tengely. In: Hanrot, G., Morain, F., Thomé, E. (eds) Algorithmic Number Theory. ANTS 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6197. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14518-6_25
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