Diophantus- Diophantine problem

Algebra Level 2

Find the number of positive integer solutions to the equation x x + y y = z z x^x+y^y=z^z


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1 solution

Dan Czinege
Mar 25, 2020

We can asume WLOG that x y < z x≤y<z , because if at least one of x , y x, y would be at least z z then z z < x x + y y z^z<x^x+y^y .
So x x + y y 2 ( z 1 ) z 1 ( z 1 ) ( z 1 ) z 1 < z z x^x+y^y≤2(z-1)^{z-1}≤(z-1)(z-1)^{z-1}<z^z for every z 3 z\geq3 .
So we can be sure that for every z 3 z\geq3 is the following true for every natural numbers x , y x,y : x x + y y z z x^x+y^y\ne z^z .
And now there are only few cases that we must check and here they are:
1.) z = 2 z=2
x x + y y = 4 x^x+y^y=4 , this equation has no solutions because m a x ( x , y ) max(x,y) must be lower than 2 and thus x = y = 1 x=y=1 which simply does not fulfill the equation.
2.) For z = 1 z=1 this equation has no solutions, because m a x ( x , y ) max(x,y) must be lower than 1 and there are no natural numbers lower than 1.
And we are done.


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