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2022/100/3-4 (12) — DOI: 10.5486/PMD.2022.9191 — pp. 449-460

Pairs of Heron and right triangles with a common area and a common perimeter

Authors: Abhishek Juyal and Dustin Moody

Abstract:

A Heron triangle is one in which the side lengths and area are integers. An integral right triangle is an example of a Heron triangle. In this paper, we show that there are infinitely many pairs of integral right triangles and Heron triangles with a common area and common perimeter, continuing a line of similar results with other pairs of geometric shapes. This result is established using the theory of elliptic curves.

Keywords: elliptic curve, right triangle, Heron triangle, parallelogram, common area, common perimeter

Mathematics Subject Classification: 11D25, 11G05