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2019/95/3-4 (5) — DOI: 10.5486/PMD.2019.8444 — pp. 335-354

An upper bound for the number of solutions of ternary purely exponential Diophantine equations. II

Authors: Yongzhong Hu and Maohua Le

Abstract:

Let $a$, $b$, $c$ be fixed pairwise coprime positive integers with $\min\{a, b, c\} > 1$. In this paper, by analyzing the gap rule for solutions of the ternary purely exponential Diophantine equation $a^x+b^y=c^z$, we prove that if $\max\{a,b,c\}\geq 10^{62}$, then the equation has at most two positive integer solutions $(x,y,z)$.

Keywords: ternary purely exponential Diophantine equation, upper bound for solution number, gap rule for solutions

Mathematics Subject Classification: 11D61