Congruent number conjecture for angles pi/3 and 2pi/3

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Let nn be a squarefree positive integer. A positive integer is a θ\theta-congruent number if it is the area of a triangle with rational side lengths and angle θ\theta. The residue classes below are taken modulo 2424.

Congruent number conjecture for angles π/3\pi/3 and 2π/32\pi/3. If

n≡11,13,17, or 23(mod24),n\equiv 11,13,17,\text{ or }23\pmod{24},

then nn is a π/3\pi/3-congruent number; and if

n≡5,17,19, or 23(mod24),n\equiv 5,17,19,\text{ or }23\pmod{24},

then nn is a 2π/32\pi/3-congruent number.

The conjecture extends the classical congruent-number conjecture to these two angles. The paper gives several results for primes in the asserted residue classes, but the full statements for squarefree integers remain unproved.

References

Primary source

Enrique Gonzalez-Jimenez and Jorn Steuding, “Arithmetic progressions of four squares over quadratic fields”, arXiv:0903.3856 (2009).

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