On second order gap balancing numbers (Q2337571)

Summary: We consider the Diophantine equation \[1^k + 2^k + \ldots + (x - 1)^k = (x + 2)^k + (x + 3)^k + \ldots + (x + r)^k \] for some natural numbers \(x\), \(k\), and \(r\), and we call \(2x+1\) as \(k\)th order 2-gap balancing number. It was also proved that there are infinitely many first order 2-gap balancing numbers. In this paper, we show that the only second order 2-gap balancing number is 1.