Level lowering modulo prime powers and twisted Fermat equations

DOI10.4153/CJM-2011-059-8MaRDI QIDQ2882885zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sander R. Dahmen, Soroosh Yazdani

Publication date 11 May 2012

Published in Canadian Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.0284, http://cms.math.ca/10.4153/CJM-2011-059-8

zbMATH Keywords

modular formslevel loweringhigher degree Diophantine equationstwisted Fermat curves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Holomorphic modular forms of integral weight (11F11) Congruences for modular and (p)-adic modular forms (11F33) Galois representations (11F80) Elliptic curves over global fields (11G05) Higher degree equations; Fermat's equation (11D41)

Abstract: We discuss a clean level lowering theorem modulo prime powers for weight $2$ cusp forms. Furthermore, we illustrate how this can be used to completely solve certain twisted Fermat equations $a{x}^n+b{y}^n+c{z}^n=0$.

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