Jeśmanowicz' conjecture with Fermat numbers

Abstract: Let

a, b, c

be relatively prime positive integers such that

a^{2} + b^{2} = c^{2} .

In 1956, Je'{s}manowicz conjectured that for any positive integer

n

, the only solution of

(a n)^{x} + (b n)^{y} = (c n)^{z}

in positive integers is

(x, y, z) = (2, 2, 2)

. Let

k g e q 1

be an integer and

F_{k} = 2^{2^{k}} + 1

be a Fermat number. In this paper, we show that Je'{s}manowicz' conjecture is true for Pythagorean triples

(a, b, c) = (F_{k} - 2, 2^{2^{k - 1} + 1}, F_{k})

.

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