{ "id": "1604.05334", "version": "v1", "published": "2016-04-18T20:05:21.000Z", "updated": "2016-04-18T20:05:21.000Z", "title": "Difference of powers of consecutive primes which are perfect squares", "authors": [ "Alessandro Ventullo" ], "categories": [ "math.NT" ], "abstract": "We investigate the consecutive primes $p$ and $q$ ($p > q$) for which there exists a pair of natural numbers $(x,y)$ such that $p^x-q^y$ is a perfect square and make some conjectures.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2016-04-18T20:05:21.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "perfect square", "consecutive primes", "difference" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2016arXiv160405334V" } } }