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On the exponential Diophantine equation Pxn + Pxn+1 + ⋯ + Pxn+k-1 = Pm

  • Florian Luca , Euloge Tchammou und Alain Togbé EMAIL logo
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 10. Dezember 2020
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Abstract

In this paper, we find all the solutions of the title Diophantine equation in positive integers (m, n, k, x), where Pi is the ith term of the Pell sequence.

MSC 2010: 11B39; 11J86

F.L. was supported in part by the Number Theory Focus Area Grant of CoEMaSS at Wits (South Africa)

A.T. was supported in part by Purdue University Northwest


Acknowledgement

The authors thank the referees for the useful comments to improve the quality of this paper.

  1. (Communicated by István Gaál

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Received: 2020-01-03
Accepted: 2020-02-22
Published Online: 2020-12-10
Published in Print: 2020-12-16

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