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May 25, 2007

modular arithmeticnumber theoryrelatively primeDiophantine Equations

Problem Statement

Let

a, b, c

be positive integers such that

a

and

b

are relatively prime and

c

is relatively prime either to

a

or

b

. Prove that there exist infinitely many triples

(x, y, z)

of distinct positive integers such that

x^{a}+y^{b}= z^{c}.

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