Perfect powers in Catalan and Narayana numbers
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perfectcatalannarayananon-trivialnumberconjecturenevernumbers
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When a Catalan number or a Narayana number is a (non-trivial) perfect power? For Catalan numbers, we show that the answer is "never". However, we prove that for every b, the Narayana number N(a,b) is a (non-trivial) perfect square for infinitely many values of a, and we show how to compute all of them. We also conjecture that N(a,b) is never a (non-trivial) perfect k-th power for k greater than 2 and we prove some cases of this conjecture.
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