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Séminaire de Théorie des Nombres

$Y$-coordinates of Pell equations in binary recurrences

Florian Luca

( University of the Witwatersrand/University of Ostrava )

Salle de Conférences

le 05 avril 2019 à 14:00

Let d>1d>1 be an integer which is not a square and (Xn,Yn)(X_n,Y_n) be the nnth solution of the Pell equation X2dY2=±1X^2-dY^2=\pm 1. Given an interesting set of positive integers UU, we ask how many positive integer solutions nn can the equation YnUY_n\in U have. We show that under mild assumptions on UU (for example, when 1U1\in U and UU contains infinitely many even integers), then the equation YnUY_n\in U has two solutions nn for infinitely many dd. We show that this is best possible whenever UU is the set of values of a binary recurrent sequence {um}m1\{u_m\}_{m\ge 1} with real roots and dd is large enough (with respect to UU). We also show that for the particular case when um=2m1u_m=2^m-1, the equation Yn=2m1Y_n=2^m-1 has at most two positive integer solutions (n,m)(n,m) for all dd. The proofs use linear forms in logarithms. This is joint work with Bernadette Faye.