Solvability of the diophantine equation x2 − Dy2 = ± 2 and new invariants for real quadratic fields

Abstract

In our recent papers [3, 4, 5], we defined some new D-invariants for any square-free positive integer D and considered their properties and interrelations among them. Especially, as an application of it, we discussed in [5] the characterization of real quadratic field Q() of so-called Richaud-Degert type in terms of these new D-invariants.