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On a class of Lebesgue-Ramanujan-Nagell equations

Number Theory 2023-06-01 v3

Abstract

We deeply investigate the Diophantine equation cx2+d2m+1=2yncx^2+d^{2m+1}=2y^n in integers x,y1,m0x, y\geq 1, m\geq 0 and n3n\geq 3, where cc and dd are given coprime positive integers such that cd≢3(mod4)cd\not\equiv 3 \pmod 4. We first solve this equation for prime nn, under the condition nh(cd)n\nmid h(-cd), where h(cd)h(-cd) denotes the class number of the quadratic field Q(cd)\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{-cd}). We then completely solve this equation for both cc and dd primes under the assumption that gcd(n,h(cd))=1\gcd(n, h(-cd))=1. We also completely solve this equation for c=1c=1 and d1(mod4)d\equiv1 \pmod 4, under the condition gcd(n,h(d))=1\gcd(n, h(-d))=1. For some fixed values of cc and dd, we derive some results concerning the solvability of this equation.

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@article{arxiv.2005.05214,
  title  = {On a class of Lebesgue-Ramanujan-Nagell equations},
  author = {Azizul Hoque},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.05214},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

14 Pages. Some misprints have been fixed. To appear in "Periodica Mathematica Hungarica"