A new proof of Ko Chao's theorem.

DOI10.1023/B:MATN.0000043463.77207.2AMaRDI QIDQ556532zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Maurice Mignotte

Publication date 21 June 2005

Published in Mathematical Notes (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1023/B:MATN.0000043463.77207.2A

zbMATH Keywords

Baker's methodexponential Diophantine equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Higher degree equations; Fermat's equation (11D41) Exponential Diophantine equations (11D61) Linear forms in logarithms; Baker's method (11J86)

Review text

In [Sci. Sin. 14, 457--460 (1965; Zbl 0163.04004)] \textit{Ko Chao (Ke Zhao)} proved that the equation \(x^m= y^2- 1\) has only the positive integer solution \((x,y,m)= (2,3,3)\) with \(\min(x,y,m)> 1\). This result verifies an important case of Catalan's conjecture. In the present paper, the author gives a new proof of the above-mentioned result.

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