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Sums of S-units in X-coordinates of Pell equations

Number Theory 2024-11-19 v1

Abstract

Let SS be a fixed set of primes and let (Xl)l1(X_{l})_{l\geq 1} be the XX-coordinates of the positive integer solutions (X,Y)(X, Y) of the Pell equation X2dY2=1X^2-dY^2 = 1 corresponding to a non-square integer d>1d>1. We show that there are only a finite number of non-square integers d>1d>1 such that there are at least two different elements of the sequence (Xl)l1(X_{l})_{l\geq 1} that can be represented as a sum of SS-units with a fixed number of terms. Furthermore, we solve explicitly a particular case in which two of the XX-coordinates are product of power of two and power of three.

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@article{arxiv.2411.11103,
  title  = {Sums of S-units in X-coordinates of Pell equations},
  author = {Parvathi S Nair and Sudhansu Sekhar Rout},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.11103},
  year   = {2024}
}