A generalization of the question of Sierpiński on geometric progressions.
Let be a prime. We assign to each positive number a digraph whose set of vertices is and there exists a directed edge from a vertex to a vertex if . In this paper we obtain a necessary and sufficient condition for .
Applying results on linear forms in p-adic logarithms, we prove that if (x,y,z) is a positive integer solution to the equation with gcd(x,y) = 1 then (x,y,z) = (2,1,k), (3,2,k), k ≥ 1 if c = 1, and either , k ≥ 1 or if c ≥ 2.
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