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A note on the diophantine equation (xm − l) / (x − 1) = yn + l

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Le Maohua
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan, P.R., China

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Let ℤ, ℕ, ℚ denote the sets of integers, positive integers and rational numbers, respectively. Solutions (x, y, m, n) of the equation (1) have been investigated in many papers:

Let ω(m), ρ(m) denote the number of distinct prime factors and the greatest square free factor of m, respectively. In this note we prove the following results.

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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1994

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