Pell-Lucas numbers as sum of same power of consecutive Pell numbers (Q2094544)

Let \(P_{n}\) be the \(n\)-th term of the Pell sequence defined as \(P_{0}=0, P_{1}=1, P_{n}=2P_{n+1}+P_{n}\) and let \(Q_{n}\) be the \(n\)-th term of the Pell-Lucas sequence defined as \(Q_{0}=Q_{1}=2, Q_{n}=2Q_{n-1}+Q_{n-2}\). The authors are interested in non-negative integers \((m, n, k, x)\) solutions of the Diophantine equation \[ P_{n}^{x}+P_{n+1}^{x}+\ldots+P_{n+k-1}^{x}=Q_{m}. \] The main result of the paper states that the above Diophantine equation has only one non-trivial solution \((m, n, k, x)=(1, 2, 1, 1)\). The proof of the main result uses combination of linear forms in logarithms and continued fractions reduction method.