The generalized Pillai equation $\pm r a^x \pm s b^y = c$

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2011-02-22

arxiv.org/abs/1102.4834v1

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Number Theory

This is an updated version (expanding the comment on values of exponents = 0) of the paper published in Journal of Number Theo

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In this paper we consider $N$, the number of solutions $(x,y,u,v)$ to the equation $ (-1)^u r a^x + (-1)^v s b^y = c$ in nonnegative integers $x, y$ and integers $u, v \in \{0,1\}$, for given integers $a>1$, $b>1$, $c>0$, $r>0$ and $s>0$. We show that $N \le 2$ when $\gcd(ra, sb) =1$ and $\min(x,y)>0$, except for a finite number of cases that can be found in a finite number of steps. For arbitrary $\gcd(ra, sb)$ and $\min(x,y) \ge 0$, we show that when $(u,v) = (0,1)$ we have $N \le 3$, with an infinite number of cases for which N=3.

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