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Keywords:
Baker method; Pell equations; recurrence sequences
Summary:
A positive \$n\$ is called a balancing number if \[1+2+\cdots +(n-1)=(n+1)+(n+2)+\cdots +(n+r).\] We prove that there is no balancing number which is a term of the Lucas sequence.
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