Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4593685 Journal of Number Theory 2015 13 Pages PDF
Abstract

In this paper, we consider some hybrid Diophantine equations of addition and multiplication. We first improve a result on new Hilbert–Waring problem. Then we consider the equationequation(1){A+B=CABC=Dn where A,B,C,D,n∈Z+A,B,C,D,n∈Z+ and n≥3n≥3, which may be regarded as a generalization of Fermat's equation xn+yn=znxn+yn=zn. When gcd⁡(A,B,C)=1gcd⁡(A,B,C)=1, (1) is equivalent to Fermat's equation, which means it has no positive integer solutions. We discuss several cases for gcd⁡(A,B,C)=pkgcd⁡(A,B,C)=pk where p   is an odd prime. In particular, for k=1k=1 we prove that (1) has no nonzero integer solutions when n=3n=3 and we conjecture that it is also true for any prime n>3n>3. Finally, we consider Eq. (1) in quadratic fields Q(t) for n=3n=3.

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