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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">journal-of-discrete-mathematical-sciences-and-cryptography</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Journal of Discrete Mathematical Sciences and Cryptography</journal-title>
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      <issn publication-format="electronic">2169-0065</issn>
      <issn publication-format="print">0972-0529</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Taru Publications</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.47974/JDMSC-2225</article-id>
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        <article-title>An exponential Diophantine equation x2 + 3a 73b = yn</article-title>
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          <name>
            <surname>Muthuvel</surname>
            <given-names>S.</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Vadapalani Campus, No. 1, Jawaharlal Nehru Salai, Vadapalani, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 600026, India</aff>
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          <name>
            <surname>Venkatraman</surname>
            <given-names>R.</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Vadapalani Campus, No. 1, Jawaharlal Nehru Salai, Vadapalani, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 600026, India</aff>
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      </contrib-group>
      <volume>28</volume>
      <issue>6</issue>
      <fpage>2289</fpage>
      <lpage>2296</lpage>
      <pub-date date-type="pub">
        <day>16</day>
        <month>09</month>
        <year>2025</year>
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      <abstract>
        <p>This paper aims to identify all solutions in positive integers x and y (where x, y ≥ 1), with nonnegative exponents a and b, and an integer n ≥ 3, that satisfy the Diophantine equation x2 + 3a 73b = yn under the condition x and y are coprime.</p>
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        <kwd>Integer solution</kwd>
        <kwd>Diophantine equations</kwd>
        <kwd>S-integers</kwd>
        <kwd>Primitive divisor</kwd>
        <kwd>Lucas sequence</kwd>
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