# Perfect Powers: Pillai's works and their developments

**Authors:** Michel Waldschmidt

arXiv: 0908.4031 · 2009-08-28

## TL;DR

This paper reviews Pillai's contributions to Diophantine equations, discusses subsequent developments, and explores open problems in the field, providing a comprehensive overview of the topic.

## Contribution

It offers a detailed analysis of Pillai's work and highlights recent advancements and unresolved questions in Diophantine number theory.

## Key findings

- Summarizes Pillai's key results in Diophantine equations
- Discusses recent progress in related open problems
- Identifies future research directions in the field

## Abstract

After a short introduction to Pillai's work on Diophantine questions, we quote some later developments and we discuss related open problems.

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