Conjecture on integer ratios of consecutive odd power sums

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For positive integers kk and mm, let

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

Conjecture on odd power sums.

{Tk(m+1)Tk(m) ∣ k,m∈Z+, 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.

References

Primary source

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

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