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Consecutive integers in the form a x + y b
AIMS Mathematics 2023, 8(8): 17620-17630
Published: 15 August 2023
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Let a , b and k be integers greater than 1. For a tuple of k consecutive integers sorted in ascending order, denoted by T k , call T k a nice k-tuple if each integer of T k is a sum of two powers of the form a x + y b and a perfect k-tuple if each integer of T k is a sum of two perfect powers of the form a x + y b , respectively. Let N k ( a , b ) be the number of nice k-tuples and N ~ k ( a , b ) be the number of perfect k-tuples. For a given ( a , b ), it is quite interesting to find out N k ( a , b ) and N ~ k ( a , b ). In 2020, Lin and Cheng obtained the formula for N k ( 2 , 2 ). The main goal of this paper is to establish the formulas for N k ( a , b ) and N ~ k ( a , b ). Actually, by using the method of modulo coverage together with some elementary techniques, the formulas for N ~ k ( 2 , 2 ), N ~ k ( 3 , 2 ) and N k ( 3 , 2 ) are derived.

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