Miyazaki's shuffle conjecture for Terai–Jeśmanowicz equations

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Let a,b,c,p,q,ra,b,c,p,q,r be fixed positive integers satisfying

ap+bq=cr,min{p,q,r}>1.a^p+b^q=c^r,\qquad \min\{p,q,r\}>1.

Assume further that a<ba<b, (a,b,c)(2,7,3)(a,b,c)\ne(2,7,3), and (a,b,c)(2,2k1,2k+1)(a,b,c)\ne(2,2^k-1,2^k+1) for a positive integer kk. Consider positive integer solutions (X,Y,Z)(X,Y,Z) of

cX+bY=aZ.c^X+b^Y=a^Z.

Miyazaki's shuffle conjecture. If q=r=2q=r=2 and b+1=cb+1=c, the only solution is (X,Y,Z)=(1,1,p)(X,Y,Z)=(1,1,p); otherwise, there are no solutions. The source presents this as a final open conjectural variant of the Terai–Jeśmanowicz problem.

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Primary source

Maohua Le, Reese Scott and Robert Styer, “A Survey on the Ternary Purely Exponential Diophantine Equation a^x + b^y = c^z”, arXiv:1808.06557 (2018).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2017–2018). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1706.05480.

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