A Note on a Result of Makowski
Number Theory
2025-03-19 v4
Abstract
In this note, we fix a gap in a proof of the first author that 28 is the only even perfect number which is the sum of two perfect cubes. We also discuss the situation for higher powers.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.2310.07077,
title = {A Note on a Result of Makowski},
author = {Luis H. Gallardo and Joshua Zelinsky},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.07077},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
5 pages. Accepted to Elemente der Mathematik