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On the multiplicity in Pillai's problem with Fibonacci numbers and powers of a fixed prime

Number Theory 2022-07-27 v1

Abstract

Let {Fn}n0 \{F_n\}_{n\ge 0} be the sequence of Fibonacci numbers and let pp be a prime. For an integer cc we write mF,p(c)m_{F,p}(c) for the number of distinct representations of cc as FkpF_k-p^\ell with k2k\ge 2 and 0\ell\ge 0. We prove that mF,p(c)4m_{F,p}(c)\le 4.

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@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