On the ratio of two blocks of consecutive integers

Proceedings - Mathematical Sciences - Tập 100 - Trang 107-132 - 1990
N Saradha1, T N Shorey1
1School of Mathematics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay

Tóm tắt

Under certain assumptions, it is shown that eq. (2) has only finitely many solutions in integersx≥0,y≥0,k≥2,l≥0. In particular, it is proved that (2) witha=b=1, l=k implies thatx=7,y=0,k=3.

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