On the exponential Diophantine equation $(n-1)^{x}+(n+2)^{y}=n^{z}$
Number Theory
2020-03-31 v1
Abstract
Suppose that is a positive integer. In this paper, we show that the exponential Diophantine equation has only the positive integer solutions . The main tools on the proofs are Baker's theory and Bilu-Hanrot-Voutier's result on primitive divisors of Lucas numbers.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.2003.12749,
title = {On the exponential Diophantine equation $(n-1)^{x}+(n+2)^{y}=n^{z}$},
author = {Hairong Bai and Elif Kızıldere and Gökhan Soydan and Pingzhi Yuan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.12749},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
12 pages, to appear, Colloquium Mathematicum (2020)