Positive Rational Solutions to x y = y mx : A Number-Theoretic Excursion (Q4469229)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2074192
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2074192 |
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Positive Rational Solutions to x y = y mx : A Number-Theoretic Excursion (English)
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14 June 2004
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exponential Diophantine equations
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0.7782793641090393
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0.7769351005554199
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The motivation of this paper is the classical Diophantine equation \(x^y=y^x\), which was already studied by D. Bernoulli and C. Goldbach in 1728, and then by Euler and many other mathematicians. The authors consider the more general equation \(x^y=y^{mx}\) in positive rational numbers. They completely solve the cases \(m=2\) and \(m=3\). The proof uses lower bounds in linear forms in two logarithms and packages to solve Thue equations.
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