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Diophantine equations of Erdös-Moser type
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 April 2009
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Using an old result of Von Staudt on sums of consecutive integer powers, we shall show by an elementary method that the Diophantine equation 1k + 2k + … + (x − l)k = axk has no solutions (a, x, k) with k > 1, . For a = 1 this equation reduces to the Erdös-Moser equation and the result to a result of Moser. Our method can also be used to deal with variants of the equation of the title, and two examples will be given. For one of them there are no integer solutions with
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