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Numbers of the form m^k+k, with m and k > 1.
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%I #11 Feb 01 2021 18:18:52

%S 6,11,18,20,27,30,37,38,51,66,67,70,83,85,102,123,128,135,146,171,198,

%T 219,227,248,258,260,264,291,326,346,363,402,443,486,515,521,531,578,

%U 627,629,678,731,732,735,786,843,902,963,1003,1026,1029,1034,1091,1158

%N Numbers of the form m^k+k, with m and k > 1.

%C For n=11, there are two representations: 2^3+3 and 3^2+2. All other numbers < 10^16 of this form have a unique representation. The uniqueness question leads to a Pillai-like exponential Diophantine equation a^x-b^y = y-x for y > x > 1 and b > a > 1, which appears to have only one solution.

%H Robert Israel, <a href="/A099225/b099225.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000</a>

%p N:= 2000: # for terms <= N

%p S:= {}:

%p for k from 2 to floor(log[2](N)) do

%p S:= S union {seq(m^k+k, m=2..floor((N-k)^(1/k)))}

%p od:

%p sort(convert(S,list)); # _Robert Israel_, Apr 28 2019

%t nLim=2000; lst={}; Do[k=2; While[n=m^k+k; n<=nLim, AppendTo[lst, n]; k++ ], {m, 2, Sqrt[nLim]}]; Union[lst]

%Y Cf. A057897 (numbers of the form m^k-k, with m and k > 1), A074981 (n such that there is no solution to Pillai's equation), A099226 (numbers that can be represented as both a^x+x and b^y-y, for some a, b, x, y > 1).

%K nonn

%O 1,1

%A _T. D. Noe_, Oct 06 2004