On the Diophantine equation p^x₁ - p^x₂ = q^y₁ - q^y₂

DOI10.1016/S0019-3577(03)90005-XMaRDI QIDQ1433045zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Florian Luca

Publication date 15 June 2004

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/S0019-3577(03)90005-X

zbMATH Keywords

exponential Diophantine equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exponential Diophantine equations (11D61)

Review text

The main result of this paper is: Theorem. Let \(p\) and \(q\) be distinct prime numbers, \(q\) fixed. Then the equation \[ p^{x_1}- p^{x_2}=q^{y_1}-q^{y_2}, \quad \text{ with}\;x_1\not=x_2, \] has only finitely many positive integer solutions \((p,x_1,x_2,y_1,y_2)\). The author shows also that the ABC conjecture implies that the previous result remains true without the restriction `\(q\) fixed'. The proof is quite involved. The main tool is the theory of lower bounds of linear forms of logarithms of algebraic numbers.

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