Perfect powers that are sums of squares in a three term arithmetic progression

Abstract

We determine primitive solutions to the equation (x-r)2 + x2 + (x+r)2 = yn for 1 r 5,000, making use of a factorization argument and the Primitive Divisors Theorem due to Bilu, Hanrot and Voutier.

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