The Darmon-Granville equation with algebraic exponents. (Q1864858)

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The Darmon-Granville equation with algebraic exponents.
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    The Darmon-Granville equation with algebraic exponents. (English)
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    23 March 2003
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    The main result of the paper is the following: Let \(A\), \(B\), \(C\), \(a\), \(b\) and \(c\) be integers with \(ABC\not=0\). Let \(x\), \(y\), \(z\) be positive rational numbers and \(\alpha\), \(\beta\), \(\gamma\) be real algebraic numbers. If \[ A x^{a+i\alpha} + B y^{b+i\beta} = C z^{c+i\gamma} , \] then \[ x^\alpha = y^\beta = z^\gamma \] and \[ A x^{a} + B y^{b} = C z^{c} . \] Moreover if \(x^\alpha\), \(y^\beta\) and \(z^\gamma\) are not all equal to \(1\), then \(\alpha \beta \gamma \not=0\), both \(\alpha /\beta\) and \(\alpha /\gamma\) are rational numbers, and \(x\), \(y\), \(z\) can be explicitly determined. The proof uses Baker's generalization of the Gelfond-Schneider Theorem. From this result the arguments are elementary.
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