On Repdigits Which are Sums or Differences of Two k-Pell Numbers

Abstract

ABSTRACT Let k ≥ 2. A generalization of the well-known Pell sequence is the k-Pell sequence whose first k terms are 0,…, 0, 1 and each term afterwards is given by the linear recurrence pn(k)=2Pn−1(k)+Pn−2(k)+⋯+Pn−k(k). The goal of this paper is to show that 11, 33, 55, 88 and 99 are all repdigits expressible as sum or difference of two k-Pell. The proof of our main theorem uses lower bounds for linear forms in logarithms of algebraic numbers and a modified version of Baker-Davenport reduction method (due to Dujella and Pethő). This extends a result of Bravo and Herrera [Repdigits in generalized Pell sequences, Arch. Math. (Brno) 56(4) (2020), 249–262].