Powerful arithmetic progressions

DOI10.1016/S0019-3577(09)00012-3MaRDI QIDQ735424zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lajos Hajdu

Publication date 22 October 2009

Published in Indagationes Mathematicae. New Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/s0019-3577(09)00012-3

zbMATH Keywords

arithmetic progressionperfect powers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Arithmetic progressions (11B25) Exponential Diophantine equations (11D61) Computer solution of Diophantine equations (11Y50)

Review text

A \textit{powerful arithmetic progression} is a progression whose \(k\)th term is a perfect \(k\)th power for all \(k\). An arithmetic progression \(a_1\), \(a_2\), \dots\ is called \textit{primitive} if \(\gcd(a_1,a_2)=1\). In 1998, K. D. Bolkan asked the following question: what is the length of the longest nonconstant powerful arithmetic progression? In 2000, J. P. Robertson proved that the answer is five. In the present paper, the author proves in particular the following results: -- The only primitive powerful arithmetic progression of length five is the trivial one 1,~1,~1,~1,~1. -- The are infinitely many powerful arithmetic progressions of length four. -- The are infinitely many pairwise nonproportional powerful arithmetic progressions of length five. The proof of the first of these results is obtained by a deep study of the Diophantine equation \(3X^4-Y^2=2Z^5\), involving in particular the elliptic Chabauty method.

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