Mersenne numbers as a difference of two Lucas numbers
Let be the Lucas sequence. We show that the Diophantine equation has only the nonnegative integer solutions , , , , , , where is the th Mersenne number and .
Let be the Lucas sequence. We show that the Diophantine equation has only the nonnegative integer solutions , , , , , , where is the th Mersenne number and .
In this paper, the author shows a technique of generating an infinite number of coprime integral solutions for of the Diophantine equation for any positive integral values of when (mod 6) or (mod 6). For doing this, we will be using a published result of this author in The Mathematics Student, a periodical of the Indian Mathematical Society.
We study the family of elliptic curves y² = x(x-a²)(x-b²) parametrized by Pythagorean triples (a,b,c). We prove that for a generic triple the lower bound of the rank of the Mordell-Weil group over ℚ is 1, and for some explicitly given infinite family the rank is 2. To each family we attach an elliptic surface fibered over the projective line. We show that the lower bounds for the rank are optimal, in the sense that for each generic fiber of such an elliptic surface its corresponding Mordell-Weil...
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Given a binary recurrence , we consider the Diophantine equation with nonnegative integer unknowns , where for 1 ≤ i < j ≤ L, , and K is a fixed parameter. We show that the above equation has only finitely many solutions and the largest one can be explicitly bounded. We demonstrate the strength of our method by completely solving a particular Diophantine equation of the above form.