How find this diophantine equation $(3x-1)^2+2=(2y^2-4y)^2+y(2y-1)^2-6y$ integer solution

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Find this following Diophantine equation all integer solution $$(3x-1)^2+2=(2y^2-4y)^2+y(2y-1)^2-6y$$ or $$9x^2-6x+3=4y^4-12y^3+12y^2-5y$$ Maybe this equation can be solved by using Pell equation methods?

I want take right is Quadratic formula with $(ay^2+by+c)$

maybe we have $$(3x-1)^2-A(ay^2+by+c)^2=B?$$

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You can write it as $$(3x-1)^2-(2y^2-3y+\tfrac34)^2=-\tfrac12y-\tfrac{41}{16}.$$ Factoring the LHS gives two factors at least one of which gets too large as $y$ is large, as $$|(3x-1)-(2y^2-3y+\tfrac34)|+|(3x-1)+(2y^2-3y+\tfrac34)|\geqslant2\cdot|2y^2-3y+\tfrac34|.$$ It suffices to check the $y$'s with $-\tfrac12y-\tfrac{41}{16}=0$ (impossible) or $|-\tfrac12y-\tfrac{41}{16}|\geqslant|2y^2-3y+\tfrac34|$, that is, $y\in\{0,1,2\}$.
(Note all this makes a little more sense after denominators are cleared, but it's perfectly valid to act as if they are.)
The only solution is $(1,2)$.

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Yes, you can use the quadratic formula. Solve for $x$ and you get the form,

$$x = \frac{-b\pm\sqrt{f(y)}}{2a}$$

hence you must find integer $y$ such that,

$$f(y) = z^2$$

If your $f(y)$ is a polynomial only of degree $n=2$, then generally you can use a Pell equation to find an infinite more integer $y$.

Unfortunately, your $f(y)$ has degree $n>2$ (namely $n=4$), and after some transformations this is an elliptic curve. And it is well-known an elliptic curve only has a finite number of integer solutions.