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P. K. Bhoi

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On the resolution of the Diophantine equation $U_n + U_m = x^q$

Suppose that $(U_{n})_{n \geq 0}$ is a binary recurrence sequence and has a dominant root $α$ with $α>1$ and the discriminant $D$ is square-free. In this paper, we study the Diophantine equation $U_n + U_m = x^q$ in integers $n \geq m \geq 0$, $x \geq 2$, and $q \geq 2$. Firstly, we show that there are only finitely many of them for a fixed $x$ using linear forms in logarithms. Secondly, we show that there are only finitely many solutions in $(n, m, x, q)$ with $q, x\geq 2$ under the assumption of the {\em abc-conjecture}. To prove this, we use several classical results like Schmidt subspace theorem, a fundamental theorem on linear equations in $S$-units and Siegel's theorem concerning the finiteness of the number of solutions of a hyperelliptic equation.

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Sums of $S$-units in sum of terms of recurrence sequences

Let $S := \{p_1,\ldots ,p_{\ell}\}$ be a finite set of primes and denote by $\mathcal{U}_S$ the set of all rational integers whose prime factors are all in $S$. Let $(U_n)_{n\geq 0}$ be a non-degenerate linear recurrence sequence with order at least two. In this paper, we provide a finiteness result for the solutions of the Diophantine equation $aU_n + bU_m = z_1 +\cdots +z_r,$ where $n\geq m$ and $z_1, \ldots, z_r\in \mathcal{U}_S$.

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