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Almost powers in the Lucas sequence

Yann Bugeaud, Florian Luca, Maurice Mignotte, Samir Siksek (2008)

Journal de Théorie des Nombres de Bordeaux

The famous problem of determining all perfect powers in the Fibonacci sequence ( F n ) n 0 and in the Lucas sequence ( L n ) n 0 has recently been resolved [10]. The proofs of those results combine modular techniques from Wiles’ proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem with classical techniques from Baker’s theory and Diophantine approximation. In this paper, we solve the Diophantine equations L n = q a y p , with a > 0 and p 2 , for all primes q < 1087 and indeed for all but 13 primes q < 10 6 . Here the strategy of [10] is not sufficient due to the sizes of...

An a b c d theorem over function fields and applications

Pietro Corvaja, Umberto Zannier (2011)

Bulletin de la Société Mathématique de France

We provide a lower bound for the number of distinct zeros of a sum 1 + u + v for two rational functions u , v , in term of the degree of u , v , which is sharp whenever u , v have few distinct zeros and poles compared to their degree. This sharpens the “ a b c d -theorem” of Brownawell-Masser and Voloch in some cases which are sufficient to obtain new finiteness results on diophantine equations over function fields. For instance, we show that the Fermat-type surface x a + y a + z c = 1 contains only finitely many rational or elliptic curves,...

An arithmetic formula of Liouville

Erin McAfee, Kenneth S. Williams (2006)

Journal de Théorie des Nombres de Bordeaux

An elementary proof is given of an arithmetic formula, which was stated but not proved by Liouville. An application of this formula yields a formula for the number of representations of a positive integer as the sum of twelve triangular numbers.

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