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A SURVEY ON THE TERNARY PURELY EXPONENTIAL DIOPHANTINE EQUATION ax + by = cz

Maohua Le, Reese Scott and Robert Styer

Abstract. Let a, b, c be fixed coprime positive integers with \min\a,b,c\>1. In this survey, we consider some unsolved problems and related works concerning the positive integer solutions (x,y,z) of the ternary purely exponential diophantine equation ax + by = cz.

2010 Mathematics Subject Classification: 11D61.
Keywords: ternary purely exponential diophantine equation; Jesmanowicz conjecture, Terai-Jesmanowicz conjecture.

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