To Wolfgang Schmidt at his seventy-fifth birthday 1. Introduction. Let r and s be nonzero integers such that ∆ = r 2 + 4s = 0 and let α, β be the two roots of the quadratic equation x 2 −rx−s = 0. We assume further that α/β is not a root of 1. Let (u n ) n≥0 and (v n ) n≥0 be the Lucas sequences of the first and second kind with roots α and β, given by u n = (α n − β n )/(α − β) and v n = α n + β n for all n ≥ 0, respectively. These sequences can also be defined by u 0 = 0, u 1 = 1, v 0 = 2, v 1 = r and the recurrence relations u n+2 = ru n+1 + su n and v n+2 = rv n+1 + sv n for all n ≥ 0. When r = s = 1, the resulting sequences (u n ) n≥0 and (v n ) n≥0 are the sequences of Fibonacci numbers (F n ) n≥0 and Lucas numbers (L n ) n≥0 , and when r = 3, s = −2, the resulting sequence u n = 2 n − 1 for n ≥ 0 is the sequence of Mersenne numbers.In [7], we investigated Diophantine equations of the form