On the exponential Diophantine equation containing the Euler quotients

Authors

  • N. Terai Ashikaga Institute of Technology

Keywords:

exponential Diophantine equation, Fermat quotients, Euler quotients, integer solutions

Abstract

Let a and m be relatively prime positive integers with a>1 and m>2. Let ϕ(m) be Euler's totient function. The quotient Em(a)= aϕ(m)1 m is called the Euler quotient of m with base a. By Euler's theorem, Em(a) is an integer. In this paper, we consider the Diophantine equation Em(a)=xl () in integers x>1,l>1. We conjecture that this equation has exactly five solutions (a,m,x,l) except for (l,m)=(2,3),(2,6), and show that if equation () has solutions, then m=ps or m=2ps with p odd prime and s1. DOI: 10.1017/S0004972714000719

Published

2014-11-13

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