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Fundamental solutions to Pell equation with prescribed size
Informatics and Automation, Number theory, algebra, and analysis, Tome 276 (2012), pp. 46-56 
Étienne Fouvry; Florent Jouve. Fundamental solutions to Pell equation with prescribed size. Informatics and Automation, Number theory, algebra, and analysis, Tome 276 (2012), pp. 46-56. http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/item/TRSPY_2012_276_a4/
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We prove that the number of parameters $D$ up to a fixed $x\geq2$ such that the fundamental solution $\varepsilon_D$ to the Pell equation $T^2-DU^2=1$ lies between $D^{\frac12+\alpha_1}$ and $D^{\frac12+\alpha_2}$ is greater than $\sqrt x\log^2x$ up to a constant as long as $\alpha_1<\alpha_2$ and $\alpha_1<3/2$. The starting point of the proof is a reduction step already used by the authors in earlier works. This approach is amenable to analytic methods. Along the same lines, and inspired by the work of Dirichlet, we show that the set of parameters $D\leq x$ for which $\log\varepsilon_D$ is larger than $D^\frac14$ has a cardinality essentially larger than $x^\frac14\log^2x$.

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