No two quotients of normalized binomial mid-coefficients are equal

DOI10.1016/0022-314X(90)90122-8MaRDI QIDQ914730zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Thøger Bang, Bent Fuglede

Publication date 1990

Published in Journal of Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-314X(90)90122-8

zbMATH Keywords

binomial coefficientsdiophantine equation in four variableseigenvalues of Liouville's integral operatorplanar circular disc of radius one

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Binomial coefficients; factorials; (q)-identities (11B65) Diophantine equations (11D99)

Review text

Let \(\mu_ n=2^{-2n}\left( \begin{matrix} 2n\\ n\end{matrix} \right)\) for the integer \(n\geq 0\). It is proved in this paper that the diophantine equation \(\mu_ q/\mu_ p=\mu_ s/\mu_ r\) has only the trivial solutions \((p,q)=(r,s)\) and \((p,r)=(q,s)\).

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