On a cyclotomic unit and related products

DOI10.1016/0022-314X(91)90095-SMaRDI QIDQ804628zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors David M. Bressoud

Publication date 1991

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-314X(91)90095-S

zbMATH Keywords

cyclotomic unitsFermat's Last TheoremKummer's method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Algebraic numbers; rings of algebraic integers (11R04) Cyclotomic extensions (11R18) Units and factorization (11R27)

Review text

The author re-discovers part of Kummer's method for investigating pth powers in the pth cyclotomic field (that is, by looking at the logarithmic derivative of their \(\lambda\)-adic expansion), in proving that p divides \(\sum_{1\leq t\leq p/4}t^{p-3}\) whenever \(\prod_{1\leq k\leq p-1}(1+i\zeta^ k)^ k\) is a pth power in \({\mathbb{Z}}[i\zeta]\). Very similar criteria were given by Kummer in the case that the First Case of Fermat's Last Theorem is false for exponent p, which were recently generalized to the Second Case by \textit{F. Thaine} [J. Number Theory 29, 297-299 (1988; Zbl 0654.10018)].

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