On a combinatorial expression concerning Fermat's Last Theorem

DOI10.1006/AAMA.1996.0510MaRDI QIDQ675905zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Peter J.-S. Shiue, Leetsch C. Hsu

Publication date 1 September 1997

Published in Advances in Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1006/aama.1996.0510

zbMATH Keywords

combinatorial identitydivisibilityFermat's last theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial identities, bijective combinatorics (05A19) Higher degree equations; Fermat's equation (11D41)

Review text

It is shown that Fermat's Last Theorem is equivalent to a combinatorial identity involving a finite sum of rank 4, and this identity may be restated as an algebraic proposition asserting the divisibility by a factor \((1-t)\) of a kind of polynomial in \(t\).

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