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A NOTE ON THE NUMBER OF SOLUTIONS OF TERNARY PURELY EXPONENTIAL DIOPHANTINE EQUATIONS

Part of: Diophantine equations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 June 2022

YASUTSUGU FUJITA Open the ORCID record for YASUTSUGU FUJITA [Opens in a new window] ,
MAOHUA LE Open the ORCID record for MAOHUA LE [Opens in a new window]  and
NOBUHIRO TERAI Open the ORCID record for NOBUHIRO TERAI [Opens in a new window]
YASUTSUGU FUJITA*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, College of Industrial Technology, Nihon University, 2-11-1 Shin-ei, Narashino, Chiba, Japan
MAOHUA LE
Affiliation:
Institute of Mathematics, Lingnan Normal College, Zhangjiang, Guangdong 524048, PR China e-mail: [email protected]
NOBUHIRO TERAI
Affiliation:
Division of Mathematical Sciences, Department of Integrated Science and Technology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Oita University, 700, Dannoharu, Oita 870–1192, Japan e-mail: [email protected]
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e-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Let a, b, c be fixed coprime positive integers with $\min \{a,b,c\}>1$ . We discuss the conjecture that the equation $a^{x}+b^{y}=c^{z}$ has at most one positive integer solution $(x,y,z)$ with $\min \{x,y,z\}>1$ , which is far from solved. For any odd positive integer r with $r>1$ , let $f(r)=(-1)^{(r-1)/2}$ and $2^{g(r)}\,\|\, r-(-1)^{(r-1)/2}$ . We prove that if one of the following conditions is satisfied, then the conjecture is true: (i) $c=2$ ; (ii) a, b and c are distinct primes; (iii) $a=2$ and either $f(b)\ne f(c)$ , or $f(b)=f(c)$ and $g(b)\ne g(c)$ .

Keywords

ternary purely exponential Diophantine equationupper bound for number of solutionsTerai–Jeśmanowicz conjecture

MSC classification

Primary: 11D61: Exponential equations
Type
Research Article
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Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 107 , Issue 1 , February 2023 , pp. 53 - 65
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© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc.

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Footnotes

The third author is supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 18K03247.

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