The generalised Erdős–Moser conjecture

For positive integers kk and mm, define

Sk(m):=1k+2k++(m1)k.S_k(m):=1^k+2^k+\frac{\cdots}{}+(m-1)^k.

Generalised Erdős–Moser conjecture. There are no integral solutions (a,k,m)(a,k,m) to

Sk(m)=amkS_k(m)=am^k

with m2m\geq2, k2k\geq2, and a1a\geq1.

The best known results give explicit lower bounds on mm for hypothetical solutions, but the conjecture remains open and is described as requiring new methods.

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Primary source

Nirvana Coppola, Mar Curcó-Iranzo, Maleeha Khawaja, Vandita Patel and Özge Ülkem, “Power values of power sums: a survey”, arXiv:2306.05168 (2023).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2010–2023). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1011.2940.

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