Perfect powers that are sums of squares of an arithmetic progression

DOI10.1216/RMJ.2021.51.933MaRDI QIDQ1983222zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Debanjana Kundu, Vandita Patel

Publication date 10 September 2021

Published in Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.09167

zbMATH Keywords

exponential Diophantine equationLehmer sequenceprimitive divisorThue equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exponential Diophantine equations (11D61)

Abstract: In this paper, we determine all primitive solutions to the equation $(x+r{)}^2+(x+2r{)}^2+cdots+(x+dr{)}^2=y^n$ for $2leqdleq10$ and for $1leqrleq10^4$. We make use of a factorization argument and the Primitive Divisors Theorem due to Bilu, Hanrot and Voutier.

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In this work, the authors give all nontrivial integer solutions to the equation \[ (x+r)^2+(x+2r)^2+\cdots (x+dr)^2=y^n,\quad x,y,z\in\mathbb{Z},\quad n\ge 2,\tag{1} \] for \(2\le d \le 10\) and \(1\le r \le 10^4\) with \(\gcd(x,y)=1.\) On the proofs, they use elementary arguments of algebraic number theory and the primitive divisor theorem due to Bilu, Hanrot and Voutier which is based on existence of primitive divisors of Lehmer numbers. Furthermore, they use \texttt{ThueSolve} subroutine of Magma for solving (1) with \(n=4\).

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