On the multiplicity in Pillai's problem with Fibonacci numbers and powers of a fixed prime
Number Theory
2022-07-27 v1
Abstract
Let be the sequence of Fibonacci numbers and let be a prime. For an integer we write for the number of distinct representations of as with and . We prove that .
Cite
@article{arxiv.2207.12868,
title = {On the multiplicity in Pillai's problem with Fibonacci numbers and powers of a fixed prime},
author = {Herbert Batte and Mahadi Ddamulira and Juma Kasozi and Florian Luca},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.12868},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
Accepted to appear in Glasnik Matematicki, 17 pages