On the Diophantine equation $U_n-b^m = c$
Number Theory
2023-12-05 v1
Abstract
Let be a fixed linear recurrence sequence defined over the integers (with some technical restrictions). We prove that there exist effectively computable constants and such that for any with the equation has at most two distinct solutions with and . Moreover, we apply our result to the special case of Tribonacci numbers given by , and for . By means of the LLL-algorithm and continued fraction reduction we are able to prove and . The corresponding reduction algorithm is implemented in Sage.
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@article{arxiv.2208.03068,
title = {On the Diophantine equation $U_n-b^m = c$},
author = {Sebastian Heintze and Robert F. Tichy and Ingrid Vukusic and Volker Ziegler},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.03068},
year = {2023}
}
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34 pages