A note on Terai's conjecture concerning Pythagorean numbers (Q1281918)
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A note on Terai's conjecture concerning Pythagorean numbers (English)
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1 September 1999
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Let \((a,b,c)\) be a primitive Pythagorean triple with \(2| a\). The authors prove that if \(b\equiv 1\pmod{16}\), \(b^2+1=2c,b\) and \(c\) are both odd primes, then the equation \(x^2+b^y=c^z\) has only the positive integer solution \((x,y,z)=(a,2,2)\).
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Terai's conjecture
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Pythagorean numbers
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exponential diophantine equations
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primitive Pythagorean triple
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