On the Kummer-Mirimanoff congruences
We completely solve the Diophantine equations (for q = 17, 29, 41). We also determine all and , where are fixed primes satisfying certain conditions. The corresponding Diophantine equations x² + C = yⁿ may be studied by the method used by Abu Muriefah et al. (2008) and Luca and Togbé (2009).
The two related Diophantine equations: and , have infinitely many nontrivial, primitive integral solutions. We give two parametric solutions, one for each of these equations.
In p. 219 of R.K. Guy’s Unsolved Problems in Number Theory, 3rd edn., Springer, New York, 2004, we are asked to prove that the Diophantine equation has no integer solutions with and . But, contrary to this expectation, we show that for , this equation has infinitely many primitive integer solutions, i.e. the solutions satisfying the condition .