On the relation between perfect powers and tetration frozen digits

Abstract

This paper provides a link between integer exponentiation and integer tetration since it is devoted to introducing some peculiar sets of perfect powers characterized by any given value of their constant congruence speed, revealing a fascinating relation between the degree of every perfect power belonging to any congruence class modulo 20 and the number of digits frozen by these special tetration bases, in radix-10, for any unit increment of the hyperexponent. In particular, given any positive integer c, we constructively prove the existence of infinitely many c-th perfect powers having a constant congruence speed of c.