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Source. Theorem 7, p. 458, of Kurt Mahler, On the lattice points on curves of genus 1, Proc. London Math. Soc. (2) 39 (1935), 431--466, the edition named on the source card.

Read depth. Claims checked: the statement was read clause by clause on p. 458. The paper gives no separate proof; it says the theorem follows by specializing the form and the angle in Theorem 5. Nothing here is independently reviewed.

Statement

Theorem 7 (p. 458). There is an infinite set of positive integers k1,k2,k3,…k_1,k_2,k_3,\ldots with

1≤k1<k2<k3<⋯1\le k_1<k_2<k_3<\cdots

such that the number of representations of kνk_\nu in the form

kν=pq(p+q)k_\nu=pq(p+q)

with positive integers p,qp,q is greater than log⁡kν4\sqrt[4]{\log k_\nu}.

Proof pointer

P. 458. The paper says only that Theorems 6 and 7 follow by specializing FF and GG in Theorem 5. One reading of that step: take the form xy(x+y)xy(x+y), which has only simple linear factors, and an angle with 0<A<B0<A<B, and change signs and take γ<1\gamma<1 as for Theorem 6.

Dependencies

Theorem 5.

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