On the exponential Diophantine equation $(n-1)^{x}+(n+2)^{y}=n^{z}$

Hairong Bai, Elif Kızıldere, Gökhan Soydan, Pingzhi Yuan

Published 2020-03-28Version 1

Suppose that $n$ is a positive integer. In this paper, we show that the exponential Diophantine equation $$(n-1)^{x}+(n+2)^{y}=n^{z},\ n\geq 2,\ xyz\neq 0$$ has only the positive integer solutions $(n,x,y,z)=(3,2,1,2), (3,1,2,3)$. The main tools on the proofs are Baker's theory and Bilu-Hanrot-Voutier's result on primitive divisors of Lucas numbers.