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Some Diophantine equations involving arithmetic functions and Bhargava factorials

Number Theory 2024-07-08 v1

Abstract

F. Luca proved for any fixed rational number α>0\alpha>0 that the Diophantine equations of the form αm!=f(n!)\alpha\,m!=f(n!), where ff is either the Euler function or the divisor sum function or the function counting the number of divisors, have only finitely many integer solutions (m,n)(m,n). In this paper we generalize the mentioned result and show that Diophantine equations of the form αm1!mr!=f(n!)\alpha\,m_1!\cdots m_r!=f(n!) have finitely many integer solutions, too. In addition, we do so by including the case ff is the sum of kk\textsuperscript{th} powers of divisors function. Moreover, we observe that the same holds by replacing some of the factorials with certain examples of Bhargava factorials.

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@article{arxiv.2407.03822,
  title  = {Some Diophantine equations involving arithmetic functions and Bhargava factorials},
  author = {Daniel M. Baczkowski and Saša Novaković},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.03822},
  year   = {2024}
}

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