# THE GENERALIZED FERMAT TYPE DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS

• Liu, Kai (Department of Mathematics Nanchang University) ;
• Ma, Lei (Department of Mathematics Nanchang University) ;
• Zhai, Xiaoyang (Dongfang College Shandong University of Finance and Economics)
• Accepted : 2018.04.03
• Published : 2018.11.30

#### Abstract

This paper is to consider the generalized Fermat difference equations with different types which ever considered by Li [14], Ishizaki and Korhonen [9], Zhang [26] and Liu [15-18], respectively. Some new observations and results on these equations will be given.

#### Acknowledgement

Supported by : NSFC, NSF of Jiangxi, Nanchang University

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