Superelliptic equations arising from sums of consecutive powers

DOI10.4064/AA8305-12-2015MaRDI QIDQ2804248zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael A. Bennett, Vandita Patel, Samir Siksek

Publication date 28 April 2016

Published in Acta Arithmetica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.06619

zbMATH Keywords

modularityexponential equationGalois representationlevel loweringFrey-Hellegouarch curvemulti-Frey-Hellegouarch

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Holomorphic modular forms of integral weight (11F11) Galois representations (11F80) Higher degree equations; Fermat's equation (11D41) Exponential Diophantine equations (11D61)

Abstract: Using only elementary arguments, Cassels solved the Diophantine equation $(x-1{)}^3+x^3+(x+1{)}^3=z^2$ in integers $x$, $z$. The generalization $(x-1{)}^k+x^k+(x+1{)}^k=z^n$ (with $x$, $z$, $n$ integers and $nge2$) was considered by Zhongfeng Zhang who solved it for $k=2$, $3$, $4$ using Frey-Hellegouarch curves and their Galois representations. In this paper, by employing some sophisticated refinements of this approach, we show that the only solution for $k=5$ is $x=z=0$, and that there are no solutions for $k=6$. The chief innovation we employ is a computational one, which enables us to avoid the full computation of data about cuspidal newforms of high level.

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