Solutions of the equation x^ m+ y^ m= z^ m in SL_ 2 Z

DOI10.1007/BF02662877MaRDI QIDQ1906580zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Zhaoji Zhang

Publication date 25 February 1996

Published in Applied Mathematics. Series B (English Edition) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02662877

zbMATH Keywords

existence of solutionsFermat equation in \(2\times 2\) matrices

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Matrices, determinants in number theory (11C20) Higher degree equations; Fermat's equation (11D41)

Review text

The author is looking for solutions of the Fermat equation (see the title) with unknowns \(x\), \(y\), \(z\) being integral two by two matrices of determinant 1. Solving an open problem of the reviewer, the author proves that such a solution exists if and only if \(m\) is not divisible by 3 or 4 (in the paper the answer was stated in a more complicated form). The same result is contained in a paper by \textit{A. Khazanov} [Serdica Math J. 21, 19-40 (1995; Zbl 0829.11014)].

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