On the exponential diophantine equation $U_{n}^x+U_{n+1}^x=U_m$
Open Access
- 23 January 2024
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in The Ramanujan Journal
- Vol. 64 (1) , 153-184
Abstract
Let $$ \{U_n\}_{n\ge 0} $$ be the Lucas sequence. For integers x, n and m, we find all solutions to $$U_{n}^x+U_{n+1}^x=U_m$$ . The equation was studied and claimed to be solved completely in Ddamulira and Luca (Ramanujan J 56(2):651–684, 2021) but there are some computational bugs in that publication because of the wrong statement of Mignotte’s bound from Mignotte (A kit on linear forms in three logarithms. http://irma.math.unistra.fr/~bugeaud/travaux/kit.pdf, 2008). In this paper, the main result remains the same as in Ddamulira and Luca (Ramanujan J 56(2):651–684, 2021) but we focus on correcting the computational mistakes in Ddamulira and Luca (Ramanujan J 56(2):651–684, 2021), involving the application of Theorem 2.1 from Mignotte (A kit on linear forms in three logarithms. http://irma.math.unistra.fr/~bugeaud/travaux/kit.pdf, 2008).
Keywords
Funding Information
- University of the Witwatersrand
This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
- A kit for linear forms in three logarithmsMathematics of Computation, 2023
- On the exponential Diophantine equation related to powers of two consecutive terms of Lucas sequencesThe Ramanujan Journal, 2020
- On the exponential Diophantine equation Pxn+Pxn+1=PmTURKISH JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICS, 2019
- An exponential Diophantine equation related to the sum of powers of two consecutive k-generalized Fibonacci numbersColloquium Mathematicum, 2014
- An exponential Diophantine equation related to powers of two consecutive Fibonacci numbersProceedings of the Japan Academy, Series A, Mathematical Sciences, 2011