Hello all!
In the pursuit of a minor research problem I was pointed in the direction of an interesting result in the realm of Diophantine Analysis. The content of the result follows:
$\frac{ax^{n+2l}-1}{ax^{n}-1} = y^2$ has a solution in the natural numbers for $a$, $x$, $n$, and $l$, with $x>1$ and $y$ a rational number, if and only if the following conditions are met:
- $2|l$
- $a = \frac{3^{l-1}+1}{4}$
- $x=3$
- $n=1$
- $y=\pm (3^l +2)$
I am looking to make a slight alteration to this theorem for use in my research (though the term should be interpreted lightly), by changing $y^2$ to $3y^2$. However, after conferring with one of my professors, I was told such a theorem may already exist!
Does anyone know of this (or these) results, and would be willing to suggest a reference? If no such theorem exists, does anyone have any pointers on a good approach to this problem?
Thank you all in advance for your time and help!
-Richard Voepel
[EDIT]
I first read this result from one of my professor's papers, though I was told directly this was not the first paper to provide such a result. Here is a link.
http://www.math.sc.edu/~filaseta/papers/DiophantinePaper2006.pdf
