A variety of Euler's conjecture

Publication date 29 September 2013

Elliptic curves over global fields (11G05) Higher degree equations; Fermat's equation (11D41) Diophantine equations in many variables (11D72)

Abstract: We consider a variety of Euler's conjecture, i.e., whether the Diophantine system [�egin{cases} n=a_{1}+a_{2}+cdots+a_{s-1}, a_{1}a_{2}cdots a_{s-1}(a_{1}+a_{2}+cdots+a_{s-1})=b^{s} end{cases}] has solutions

n, b, a_{i} i n m a t h b b Z^{+}, i = 1, 2, l d o t s, s - 1, s g e q 3.

By using the theory of elliptic curves, we prove that it has no solutions

n, b, a_{i} i n m a t h b b Z^{+}

for

s = 3

, but for

s = 4

it has infinitely many solutions

n, b, a_{i} i n m a t h b b Z^{+}

and for

s g e q 5

there are infinitely many polynomial solutions

n, b, a_{i} i n m a t h b b Z [t_{1}, t_{2}, l d o t s, t_{s - 3}]

with positive value satisfying this Diophantine system.

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