Perfect powers that are sums of consecutive cubes

DOI10.1112/S0025579316000231MaRDI QIDQ2970174zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Michael A. Bennett, Vandita Patel, Samir Siksek

Publication date 28 March 2017

Published in Mathematika (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.08901

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Cubic and quartic Diophantine equations (11D25) Representation problems (11D85) Galois representations (11F80) Linear forms in logarithms; Baker's method (11J86)

Abstract: Euler noted the relation $6^3=3^3+4^3+5^3$ and asked for other instances of cubes that are sums of consecutive cubes. Similar problems have been studied by Cunningham, Catalan, Gennochi, Lucas, Pagliani, Cassels, Uchiyama, Stroeker and Zhongfeng Zhang. In particular Stroeker determined all squares that can be written as a sum of at most $50$ consecutive cubes. We generalize Stroeker's work by determining all perfect powers that are sums of at most $50$ consecutive cubes. Our methods include descent, linear forms in two logarithms, and Frey-Hellegouarch curves.

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