Perfect powers in sequences of polygonal numbers
Number Theory
2026-06-26 v1
Abstract
Let denote the -th -gonal number. Consider the Diophantine equation for integers and . All solutions to this equation are known for and . Here we extend these results to the cases (where or is a prime number) and (where or is a prime number). The proofs of our results use the modular and hypergeometric methods, linear forms in logarithms and extensive calculations. We were unable to completely solve the above Diophantine equations, but we expect (based on GRH and the weak effective conjecture) that there will be no additional solutions beyond those explicitly shown in Theorems~1, 2 and 3.
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@article{arxiv.2606.28227,
title = {Perfect powers in sequences of polygonal numbers},
author = {Andrzej Dąbrowski and Salah Eddine Rihane and Gökhan Soydan and Paul M. Voutier},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.28227},
year = {2026}
}
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