The conjecture on infinitely many nontrivially squared consecutive prime pairs

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Let pp and qq be consecutive primes with p>qp>q. Two primes are nontrivially squared if there exist natural numbers (x,y)≠(0,0)(x,y)\ne(0,0) such that px−qyp^x-q^y is a perfect square.

Nontrivially squared prime-pair conjecture. There are infinitely many consecutive primes pp and qq (p>qp>q) which are nontrivially squared.

The source motivates this using primes of the form n2+1n^2+1 and notes that Landau's conjectures would imply both this conjecture and the preceding one. Its status is not established in the source.

References

Primary source

Alessandro Ventullo, “Difference of powers of consecutive primes which are perfect squares”, arXiv:1604.05334 (2016).

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