Irreducible binary cubics and the generalised superelliptic equation over number fields

Abstract: For a large class (heuristically most) of irreducible binary cubic forms

F (x, y) i n m a t h b b Z [x, y]

, Bennett and Dahmen proved that the generalized superelliptic equation

F (x, y) = z^{l}

has at most finitely many solutions in

x, y i n m a t h b b Z

coprime,

z i n m a t h b b Z

and exponent

l i n m a t h b b Z_{g e q 4}

. Their proof uses, among other ingredients, modularity of certain mod

l

Galois representations and Ribet's level lowering theorem. The aim of this paper is to treat the same problem for binary cubics with coefficients in

m a t h c a l O_{K}

, the ring of integers of an arbitrary number field

K

, using by now well-documented modularity conjectures.

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