OFFSET
1,3
COMMENTS
It follows from a work of Vojta that a(n) tends to infinity as n tends to infinity.
REFERENCES
P. Vojta, Integral points on varieties. Thesis, Harvard, 1983.
LINKS
Andrew Howroyd, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..200
Mo Deze and R. Tijdeman, Exponential diophantine equations with four terms, Indag. Math. N.S. 3 (1992), 47--57.
R. Tijdeman and Lian Xiang Wang, Sums of products of powers of given prime numbers, Pacific J. Math. 132, (1988), 177--193.
Tomohiro Yamada, On the diophantine equation x^m=y^n1+y^n2+...+y^nk, Glasgow Math. J. 51 (2009), 143--148.
PROG
(PARI) f(x)=x-2^floor(log(x)/log(2)); g(x)=f(f(x)); a(n)=g(3^n)
(PARI) a(n)={my(t=3^n); t-=1<<logint(t, 2); t-=1<<logint(t, 2); t} \\ Andrew Howroyd, Dec 23 2019
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Tomohiro Yamada, Sep 29 2017
EXTENSIONS
Terms a(15) and beyond from Andrew Howroyd, Dec 23 2019
STATUS
approved