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In this chapter, we present a different solution. It is due to W. McCallum [31]. He reduces the problem to a Thue equation, which he solves by means of Skolem’s method. See [9, s. 10.10] for this method.
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Schoof, R. (2008). The Nontrivial Solution. In: Catalan's Conjecture. Universitext. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-185-5_4
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