Beukers' conjecture on solutions of the generalized Lebesgue–Ramanujan–Nagell equation

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Let DD be a fixed positive nonsquare integer, let pp be a fixed prime with gcd(D,p)=1\gcd(D,p)=1, and let N(D,2)N(-D,2) denote the number of solutions (x,n)(x,n) in N2\mathbb{N}^2 of

x2D=2n+2.x^2-D=2^{n+2}.

The exceptional conditions (i)(i), (ii)(ii), and (iii)(iii) are the three conditions on DD listed above in the source. Beukers' conjecture.

N(D,2)2,N(-D,2)\leq 2,

except when DD satisfies one of the conditions (i)(i), (ii)(ii), or (iii)(iii). This conjecture concerns the sharpened bound for the number of solutions after the known result N(D,2)3N(-D,2)\leq 3, apart from condition (i)(i); its status is not specified in the source.

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Primary source

Maohua Le and Gökhan Soydan, “A brief survey on the generalized Lebesgue-Ramanujan-Nagell equation”, arXiv:2001.09617 (2020).

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