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Diophantine equation 3^a+1=3^b+5^c



Planned maintenance scheduled April 23, 2019 at 23:30 UTC (7:30pm US/Eastern)
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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Determine all triples $(a,b,c)$ of non-negative integers, satisfying
$$
1+3^a = 3^b+5^c.
$$










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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
    $$
    1+3^a = 3^b+5^c.
    $$










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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
      $$
      1+3^a = 3^b+5^c.
      $$










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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
      $$
      1+3^a = 3^b+5^c.
      $$







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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.






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            Lucia, many thanks for the paper.
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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.






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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.






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            Lucia, many thanks for the paper.
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            – kawa
            15 mins ago













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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.






          share|cite|improve this answer









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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.







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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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