Diophantine equations involving double factorials

Abstract

We are motivated by a result of Alzer and Luca who presented all the integer solutions to the relations $(k!{)}^n-k^n=(n!{)}^k-n^k$ and $(k!{)}^n+k^n=(n!{)}^k+n^k$. We modify the equations by considering the double factorial instead and present all integer solutions. We also consider some variations of these equations. Furthermore, we study equations of the form $f(x)=A_1^{n_1}{n}_1!!\cdots A_r^{n_r}{n}_r!!$, where $f(x)$ is a rational polynomial, and show that under the ABC conjecture there are only finitely many integer solutions.

12 pages, commets are welcome!