On mixed \(b\)-concatenations of Pell and Pell-Lucas numbers which are Pell numbers (Q6571350)

Let \((P_n)_{n\ge 0}\) and \((Q_n)_{n\ge 0}\) be the Pell and Pell-Lucas sequences, satisfying the same recurrence relation with different initial values \(P_0=0\), \(P_1=1\) and \(Q_0=2\), \(Q_1=2\), respectively. Let \(b\) be a positive integer with \(b\ge 2\). In this paper, it is proved that the Diophantine equations \(P_n=b^d P_m+Q_k\) and \(P_n=b^d Q_m+P_k\) have only finitely many solutions in nonnegative integers \((m, n, k, b, d)\), where \(d\) is the number of digits of \(P_k\) and \(Q_k\) in base \(b\), respectively. \par When \(2\le b\le 10\), these solutions are explicitly determined. Namely, the numbers \(5\), \(12\) and \(70\) are the only Pell numbers that satisfy the first Diophantine equation. The numbers \(5\), \(12\), \(29\) and \(70\) are the only Pell numbers that satisfy the second Diophantine equation.