On the length of an arithmetic progression of the form ${3^x+2^y}$
Hongnan Chen, Fenglin Huang, Sihui Zhang
Abstract
The conclusion that the length of an arithmetic progression of the form ${3^x+2^y}$ is at most six is proved.
Hongnan Chen, Fenglin Huang, Sihui Zhang
The conclusion that the length of an arithmetic progression of the form ${3^x+2^y}$ is at most six is proved.
This paper contains 6 sections, 13 theorems, 123 equations, 1 figure.
Proposition 1.1
(cf. [1]) There are exactly five positive integers that can be written in multiple ways as the sum of non-negative powers of 2 and non-negative powers of 3, and there are only five integers that can be expressed in two ways as ${3^a+2^b\left( a,b\in N\right) }$: 5, 11, 17, 35, 259. The five element