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A NOTE ON THE DIOPHANTINE EQUATION $x^{2}+(2c-1)^{m}=c^{n}$

Part of: Diophantine equations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 July 2018

MOU-JIE DENG Open the ORCID record for MOU-JIE DENG [Opens in a new window] ,
JIN GUO  and
AI-JUAN XU
MOU-JIE DENG*
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Mathematics, Hainan University, Haikou, Hainan 570228, PR China email [email protected]
JIN GUO
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Mathematics, Hainan University, Haikou, Hainan 570228, PR China email [email protected]
AI-JUAN XU
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Mathematics, Hainan University, Haikou, Hainan 570228, PR China email [email protected]
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Abstract

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Let $c\geq 2$ be a positive integer. Terai [‘A note on the Diophantine equation $x^{2}+q^{m}=c^{n}$’, Bull. Aust. Math. Soc.90 (2014), 20–27] conjectured that the exponential Diophantine equation $x^{2}+(2c-1)^{m}=c^{n}$ has only the positive integer solution $(x,m,n)=(c-1,1,2)$. He proved his conjecture under various conditions on $c$ and $2c-1$. In this paper, we prove Terai’s conjecture under a wider range of conditions on $c$ and $2c-1$. In particular, we show that the conjecture is true if $c\equiv 3\hspace{0.6em}({\rm mod}\hspace{0.2em}4)$ and $3\leq c\leq 499$.

Keywords

exponential Diophantine equation

MSC classification

Primary: 11D61: Exponential equations
Type
Research Article
Information
Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 98 , Issue 2 , October 2018 , pp. 188 - 195
Copyright
© 2018 Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc. 

Footnotes

This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant no. 11601108) and the Natural Science Foundation of Hainan Province (grant no. 20161002).

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