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Diophantine equation $3^a+1=3^b+5^c$
Announcing the arrival of Valued Associate #679: Cesar Manara
Unicorn Meta Zoo #1: Why another podcast?Transforming a Diophantine equation to an elliptic curveNon-negative integer solutions of a single Linear Diophantine EquationDiophantine problemDoes the following Diophantine equation have nontrivial rational solutions?Help with this Diophantine equationHelp with this system of Diophantine equationsThe Theory of Transfinite Diophantine EquationsFind a distinct postive integer solution to this $xyzw=504(x^2+y^2+z^2+w^2)$ diophantine equationExponential diophantine equation systemCombination of $k$-powers and divisibility
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This is not a research problem, but challenging enough that I've decided to post it in here:
Determine all triples $(a,b,c)$ of non-negative integers, satisfying
$$
1+3^a = 3^b+5^c.
$$
nt.number-theory diophantine-equations elementary-proofs
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This is not a research problem, but challenging enough that I've decided to post it in here:
Determine all triples $(a,b,c)$ of non-negative integers, satisfying
$$
1+3^a = 3^b+5^c.
$$
nt.number-theory diophantine-equations elementary-proofs
edited yesterday
TheSimpliFire
12510
asked 2 days ago
kawakawa
2137
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Papers are still published on such questions (Lucia gave two examples, and there are others), so it's research-level (and thus fair game for Mathoverflow) even if it did not arise in your own research.
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– Noam D. Elkies
2 days ago
2
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But if it's a puzzle to which OP already knows the answer, then I'd say it's not appropriate for MO.
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– Gerry Myerson
yesterday
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NoamD.Elkies: thanks for your comment. GerryMyerson: thanks. Had I known that these type of Diophantine equations are still an active area of research, would have likely phrased the problem that way. Still trying to digest the concept --- as there is a section (tag) with elementary proofs, that are contest problems, as opposed to research problems, but challenging enough that people still post.
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This is not a research problem, but challenging enough that I've decided to post it in here:
Determine all triples $(a,b,c)$ of non-negative integers, satisfying
$$
1+3^a = 3^b+5^c.
$$
nt.number-theory diophantine-equations elementary-proofs
edited yesterday
TheSimpliFire
12510
asked 2 days ago
kawakawa
2137
$endgroup$
This is not a research problem, but challenging enough that I've decided to post it in here:
Determine all triples $(a,b,c)$ of non-negative integers, satisfying
$$
1+3^a = 3^b+5^c.
$$
nt.number-theory diophantine-equations elementary-proofs
nt.number-theory diophantine-equations elementary-proofs
edited yesterday
TheSimpliFire
12510
asked 2 days ago
kawakawa
2137
edited yesterday
TheSimpliFire
12510
asked 2 days ago
kawakawa
2137
edited yesterday
TheSimpliFire
12510
edited yesterday
TheSimpliFire
12510
edited yesterday
TheSimpliFire
12510
12510
asked 2 days ago
kawakawa
2137
asked 2 days ago
kawakawa
2137
asked 2 days ago
kawakawa
2137
2137
3
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Papers are still published on such questions (Lucia gave two examples, and there are others), so it's research-level (and thus fair game for Mathoverflow) even if it did not arise in your own research.
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– Noam D. Elkies
2 days ago
2
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But if it's a puzzle to which OP already knows the answer, then I'd say it's not appropriate for MO.
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– Gerry Myerson
yesterday
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NoamD.Elkies: thanks for your comment. GerryMyerson: thanks. Had I known that these type of Diophantine equations are still an active area of research, would have likely phrased the problem that way. Still trying to digest the concept --- as there is a section (tag) with elementary proofs, that are contest problems, as opposed to research problems, but challenging enough that people still post.
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– kawa
yesterday
add a comment |
3
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Papers are still published on such questions (Lucia gave two examples, and there are others), so it's research-level (and thus fair game for Mathoverflow) even if it did not arise in your own research.
$endgroup$
– Noam D. Elkies
2 days ago
2
$begingroup$
But if it's a puzzle to which OP already knows the answer, then I'd say it's not appropriate for MO.
$endgroup$
– Gerry Myerson
yesterday
$begingroup$
NoamD.Elkies: thanks for your comment. GerryMyerson: thanks. Had I known that these type of Diophantine equations are still an active area of research, would have likely phrased the problem that way. Still trying to digest the concept --- as there is a section (tag) with elementary proofs, that are contest problems, as opposed to research problems, but challenging enough that people still post.
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– kawa
yesterday
3
3
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Papers are still published on such questions (Lucia gave two examples, and there are others), so it's research-level (and thus fair game for Mathoverflow) even if it did not arise in your own research.
$endgroup$
– Noam D. Elkies
2 days ago
$begingroup$
Papers are still published on such questions (Lucia gave two examples, and there are others), so it's research-level (and thus fair game for Mathoverflow) even if it did not arise in your own research.
$endgroup$
– Noam D. Elkies
2 days ago
2
2
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But if it's a puzzle to which OP already knows the answer, then I'd say it's not appropriate for MO.
$endgroup$
– Gerry Myerson
yesterday
$begingroup$
But if it's a puzzle to which OP already knows the answer, then I'd say it's not appropriate for MO.
$endgroup$
– Gerry Myerson
yesterday
$begingroup$
NoamD.Elkies: thanks for your comment. GerryMyerson: thanks. Had I known that these type of Diophantine equations are still an active area of research, would have likely phrased the problem that way. Still trying to digest the concept --- as there is a section (tag) with elementary proofs, that are contest problems, as opposed to research problems, but challenging enough that people still post.
$endgroup$
– kawa
yesterday
$begingroup$
NoamD.Elkies: thanks for your comment. GerryMyerson: thanks. Had I known that these type of Diophantine equations are still an active area of research, would have likely phrased the problem that way. Still trying to digest the concept --- as there is a section (tag) with elementary proofs, that are contest problems, as opposed to research problems, but challenging enough that people still post.
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– kawa
yesterday
add a comment |
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I can't resist this: The young Chris Skinner showed that if $a$, $b$, $c$, $d$ are fixed positive integers, and $p$ and $q$ are positive coprime integers then the equation
$$
ap^x + bq^y = c+ dp^z q^w
$$
has a bounded number of solutions in $(x,y,z,w)$ and that a bound on these could be computed (and the equation solved in practice). This solves (in principle) the more general equation $1+3^a 5^d = 3^b+ 5^c$. Anyway, there is a large literature around such exponential diophantine equations, and Skinner's paper will give some references.
Following a reference from Skinner's paper, Theorem 4.01 of Brenner and Foster gives an explicit treatment of the equation
$$
3^a + 7^b=3^c+5^d,
$$
which completely resolves the problem in this question (take $b=0$). Their proof is elementary, and the only non-trivial solution to the equation in the question is $3^3+1 = 3 + 5^2$.
answered 2 days ago
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Lucia, many thanks for the paper.
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I can't resist this: The young Chris Skinner showed that if $a$, $b$, $c$, $d$ are fixed positive integers, and $p$ and $q$ are positive coprime integers then the equation
$$
ap^x + bq^y = c+ dp^z q^w
$$
has a bounded number of solutions in $(x,y,z,w)$ and that a bound on these could be computed (and the equation solved in practice). This solves (in principle) the more general equation $1+3^a 5^d = 3^b+ 5^c$. Anyway, there is a large literature around such exponential diophantine equations, and Skinner's paper will give some references.
Following a reference from Skinner's paper, Theorem 4.01 of Brenner and Foster gives an explicit treatment of the equation
$$
3^a + 7^b=3^c+5^d,
$$
which completely resolves the problem in this question (take $b=0$). Their proof is elementary, and the only non-trivial solution to the equation in the question is $3^3+1 = 3 + 5^2$.
answered 2 days ago
LuciaLucia
35.2k5151179
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Lucia, many thanks for the paper.
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– kawa
2 days ago
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$begingroup$
I can't resist this: The young Chris Skinner showed that if $a$, $b$, $c$, $d$ are fixed positive integers, and $p$ and $q$ are positive coprime integers then the equation
$$
ap^x + bq^y = c+ dp^z q^w
$$
has a bounded number of solutions in $(x,y,z,w)$ and that a bound on these could be computed (and the equation solved in practice). This solves (in principle) the more general equation $1+3^a 5^d = 3^b+ 5^c$. Anyway, there is a large literature around such exponential diophantine equations, and Skinner's paper will give some references.
Following a reference from Skinner's paper, Theorem 4.01 of Brenner and Foster gives an explicit treatment of the equation
$$
3^a + 7^b=3^c+5^d,
$$
which completely resolves the problem in this question (take $b=0$). Their proof is elementary, and the only non-trivial solution to the equation in the question is $3^3+1 = 3 + 5^2$.
answered 2 days ago
LuciaLucia
35.2k5151179
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Lucia, many thanks for the paper.
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– kawa
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$begingroup$
I can't resist this: The young Chris Skinner showed that if $a$, $b$, $c$, $d$ are fixed positive integers, and $p$ and $q$ are positive coprime integers then the equation
$$
ap^x + bq^y = c+ dp^z q^w
$$
has a bounded number of solutions in $(x,y,z,w)$ and that a bound on these could be computed (and the equation solved in practice). This solves (in principle) the more general equation $1+3^a 5^d = 3^b+ 5^c$. Anyway, there is a large literature around such exponential diophantine equations, and Skinner's paper will give some references.
Following a reference from Skinner's paper, Theorem 4.01 of Brenner and Foster gives an explicit treatment of the equation
$$
3^a + 7^b=3^c+5^d,
$$
which completely resolves the problem in this question (take $b=0$). Their proof is elementary, and the only non-trivial solution to the equation in the question is $3^3+1 = 3 + 5^2$.
answered 2 days ago
LuciaLucia
35.2k5151179
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I can't resist this: The young Chris Skinner showed that if $a$, $b$, $c$, $d$ are fixed positive integers, and $p$ and $q$ are positive coprime integers then the equation
$$
ap^x + bq^y = c+ dp^z q^w
$$
has a bounded number of solutions in $(x,y,z,w)$ and that a bound on these could be computed (and the equation solved in practice). This solves (in principle) the more general equation $1+3^a 5^d = 3^b+ 5^c$. Anyway, there is a large literature around such exponential diophantine equations, and Skinner's paper will give some references.
Following a reference from Skinner's paper, Theorem 4.01 of Brenner and Foster gives an explicit treatment of the equation
$$
3^a + 7^b=3^c+5^d,
$$
which completely resolves the problem in this question (take $b=0$). Their proof is elementary, and the only non-trivial solution to the equation in the question is $3^3+1 = 3 + 5^2$.
answered 2 days ago
LuciaLucia
35.2k5151179
edited 2 days ago
answered 2 days ago
LuciaLucia
35.2k5151179
answered 2 days ago
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Lucia, many thanks for the paper.
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Lucia, many thanks for the paper.
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Lucia, many thanks for the paper.
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Lucia, many thanks for the paper.
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Papers are still published on such questions (Lucia gave two examples, and there are others), so it's research-level (and thus fair game for Mathoverflow) even if it did not arise in your own research.
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– Noam D. Elkies
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But if it's a puzzle to which OP already knows the answer, then I'd say it's not appropriate for MO.
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– Gerry Myerson
yesterday
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NoamD.Elkies: thanks for your comment. GerryMyerson: thanks. Had I known that these type of Diophantine equations are still an active area of research, would have likely phrased the problem that way. Still trying to digest the concept --- as there is a section (tag) with elementary proofs, that are contest problems, as opposed to research problems, but challenging enough that people still post.
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– kawa
yesterday