On a class of generalized Fermat equations of signature (2,2n,3)

DOI10.1016/J.JNT.2021.06.019MaRDI QIDQ2071699zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Karolina Chałupka, Andrzej Dąbrowski, Gökhan Soydan

Publication date 28 January 2022

Published in Journal of Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.03298

zbMATH Keywords

Chabauty methodDiophantine equationelliptic curveGalois representationmodular form

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fibonacci and Lucas numbers and polynomials and generalizations (11B39) Exponential Diophantine equations (11D61)

Abstract: We consider the Diophantine equation $7x^2+y^{2n}=4z^3$. We determine all solutions to this equation for $n=2,3,4$ and $5$. We formulate a Kraus type criterion for showing that the Diophantine equation $7x^2+y^{2p}=4z^3$ has no non-trivial proper integer solutions for specific primes $p>7$. We computationally verify the criterion for all primes $7<p<10^9$, $peq13$. We use the symplectic method and quadratic reciprocity to show that the Diophantine equation $7x^2+y^{2p}=4z^3$ has no non-trivial proper solutions for a positive proportion of primes $p$. In the paper cite{ChDS} we consider the Diophantine equation $x^2+7y^{2n}=4z^3$, determining all families of solutions for $n=2$ and $3$, as well as giving a (mostly) conjectural description of the solutions for $n=4$ and primes $ngeq5$.

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This paper is motivated by the study of the signature \((2,2n,3)\) generalized Fermat equations \(a x^2 + y^{2n} = 4 z^3\) and \(x^2 + a y^{2n} = 4 z^3\) when \(\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{-a})\) has class number one. The authors focus on the case \(a = 7\), which is the only case which can have non-trivial coprime integer solutions as the other cases can be resolved by a classical descent argument. For the equation \(7 x^2 + y^{2n} = 4 z^3\), the paper determines all solutions when \(2 \le n \le 5\) using the Chabauty method, and for prime exponents \(n = p \not= 13\) in the range \(7 < p < 10^9\) using the modular method and a Kraus type argument. Additional results for a positive density of primes \(p\) are obtained using the symplectic method, as well as the quadratic reciprocity method. The equation \(x^2 + 7 y^{2n} = 4 z^3\) is considered in the authors' forthcoming work.

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