On the Exponential Diophantine Equation $(a^2-2)(b^2-2)=x^2$
Number Theory
2018-01-16 v1
Abstract
In this paper, we consider the equation . By assuming the abc conjecture is true, in [8], Luca and Walsh gave a theorem, which implies that the above equation has only finitely many solutions if a and b are different fixed positive integers. We solve the above equation when and . Moreover, we show that has no solution n,x if 2|n and gcd. We also give a conjecture which says that the equation has only the solution , where is odd and are Pell and Pell Lucas numbers, respectively. We also conjecture that if the equation has a solution , then , where .
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@article{arxiv.1801.04770,
title = {On the Exponential Diophantine Equation $(a^2-2)(b^2-2)=x^2$},
author = {Zafer Şiar and Refik Keskin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.04770},
year = {2018}
}