Conjecture on integer ratios of consecutive odd power sums

For positive integers kk and mm, let

Tk(m):=j=1m(2j1)k.T_k(m):=\sum_{j=1}^{m}(2j-1)^k.

Conjecture on odd power sums.

{Tk(m+1)Tk(m)k,mZ+, m>1}Z=.\left\{\left.\frac{T_k(m+1)}{T_k(m)}\,\right|\, k,m\in\mathbb Z^+,\ m>1\right\}\cap\mathbb Z=\varnothing.

Equivalently, there are no positive integers aa, kk, and m>1m>1 satisfying aTk(m)=(2m+1)kaT_k(m)=(2m+1)^k. The conjecture is motivated by the paper's unsolvability results for several classes of aa and by its stated theorem, but no resolution is supplied in the text.

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Primary source

Ioulia N. Baoulina, “On the unsolvability of certain equations of Erdős-Moser type”, arXiv:1804.04646 (2018).

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