Pell-Type Diophantine Equation Solving using the method of ascent

Question

Can someone help me to prove there are infinitely many solutions to the Diophantine equation: $$x^2 − 3y^2 = 1$$ using the method of ascent. We can do this by showing how, given one solution $(u, v)$, we can compute another solution $(w, z)$ that is larger is some suitable sense. Then my proof will involve finding a pair of formulas, something like: $w = x + y$ and $z = x − y$. However I tried these formulas and they don't work. So I asked my teacher and she said that there is a pair of second degree formulas which do work; one of them has a cross term and one of them involves the number 3.

Answer 1

$(2x+3y)^2-3(x+2y)^2=x^2-3 y^2$