Timeline for What is known about primes of the form $x^2-2y^2$?
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| Nov 15, 2017 at 18:04 | comment | added | Pablo | @LiorBary-Soroker you are right, I have completely missed this point. For instance, if $n=3$ and $p=11$ there seems to be a problem. As you correctly suggest, one needs the extra assumption that the negative Pell equation has a solution. | |
| Nov 15, 2017 at 16:04 | comment | added | Lior Bary-Soroker | How do you know that the norm of a is positive? You either need to prove it, or to show that there is a unit with negative norm (i.e., solution to $X^2-nY^2=-1$, for $n=2$ one may take $(1,1)$, of course...). | |
| Jun 22, 2016 at 13:58 | history | edited | Emil Jeřábek | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 20, 2015 at 16:19 | comment | added | Pablo | It is possible that I will write also a completely elementary solution soon. Hope it will be of interest. | |
| Feb 20, 2015 at 16:14 | comment | added | ReverseFlowControl | Thanks!! I like this solution better, but I appreciate the variety of perspectives to solve this. | |
| Feb 20, 2015 at 16:11 | vote | accept | ReverseFlowControl | ||
| Feb 19, 2015 at 9:17 | history | edited | Pablo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 19, 2015 at 9:11 | history | edited | Pablo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 19, 2015 at 9:03 | history | answered | Pablo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |