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there exist infinitely many pairs of natural number

Source: Ukrainian TST 2008 Problem 6

February 12, 2009
modular arithmeticnumber theory unsolvednumber theory

Problem Statement

Prove that there exist infinitely many pairs (a,b) (a, b) of natural numbers not equal to 1 1 such that b^b \plus{}a is divisible by a^a \plus{}b.