The Scott–Styer conjecture on solutions to a ternary purely exponential Diophantine equation
The Scott–Styer conjecture on solutions to a ternary purely exponential Diophantine equation
Let , , and be fixed coprime positive integers with and let denote the number of solutions in positive integers to
Assume that , , and are not perfect powers and that . Scott–Styer conjecture. Then , except for the explicitly listed cases:
(i) , with and , where ;
(ii) , with and ;
(iii) , with and ;
(iv) , with and ;
(v) , with and ;
(vi) , with and ;
(vii) , with and ;
(viii) , with and ;
(ix) , with and ;
(x) , with , , and ;
(xi) , with and ;
(xii) , with and ;
(xiii) , with and .
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Primary source
Robert Styer, “At most one solution to a^x + b^y = c^z for some ranges of a, b, c”, arXiv:2402.04428 (2024).
Additional references
3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2018–2024). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2006.15952, arXiv:1808.06557.
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