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Paolo Leonetti
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Elementary cases of Mihailescu theorem

Hi all; I just ended to write a file which collects all cases of Mihailescu theorem that are solvable directly with elementary tools, and that can be useful to a student following math contests; in particular, given the equation in integer $x^p-y^q=1$, the following cases are studied: $2\mid p$, $2\mid q$ (both are historically known), $y\mid x-1$ (that is a kind of generalization of class of problems, like $y$ prime), $x\mid q$ and $\text{gcd}(y,p)=1$ s.t. $y\le 2^p$ (last two ones should be completely original, as far as I know).

My questions are in order:

  1. Are last two cases really not known, or there exists some kind of generalization solvable with elementary tools?

  2. Can it be suitable of publication somewhere? In case, I tought about Mathematical Reflections, or Mathematical Magazine, but I don't know other ones

(In needed, I will upload the actual version of the file; please , edit the tags below, if there are better ones)

Paolo Leonetti
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