Integer ratios of consecutive alternating power sums

DOI10.1080/00029890.2019.1606577MaRDI QIDQ4967785zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ioulia N. Baoulina

Publication date 11 July 2019

Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.03365

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special sequences and polynomials (11B83) Exponential Diophantine equations (11D61)

Abstract: We give a characterization of all pairs $(k,n)$ of positive integers for which the ratio ${\displaystyle }$ frac{1^k-2^k+3^k-dots+(-1)^{n+1} n^k}{1^k-2^k+3^k-dots+(-1)^{n}(n-1)^k} ${\displaystyle }$ of two consecutive alternating power sums is an integer.

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