The quartic Fermat equation in Hilbert class fields of imaginary quadratic fields

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Authors Rodney Lynch, Patrick Morton

Publication date 11 September 2015

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.3008

zbMATH Keywords

complex multiplicationelliptic curvesHilbert class fieldquartic Fermat equationWeber singular moduli

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Cubic and quartic Diophantine equations (11D25) Higher degree equations; Fermat's equation (11D41) Elliptic curves over global fields (11G05) Complex multiplication and moduli of abelian varieties (11G15)

Abstract: It is shown that the quartic Fermat equation $x^4+y^4=1$ has nontrivial integral solutions in the Hilbert class field $Sigma$ of any quadratic field $K=mathbbQ(sqrt-d)$ whose discriminant satisfies $-dequiv1$ (mod 8). A corollary is that the quartic Fermat equation has no nontrivial solution in $K=mathbbQ(sqrt-p)$, for $p$ $(>7)$ a prime congruent to $7$ (mod 8), but does have a nontrivial solution in the odd degree extension $Sigma$ of $K$. These solutions arise from explicit formulas for the points of order 4 on elliptic curves in Tate normal form. The solutions are studied in detail and the results are applied to prove several properties of the Weber singular moduli introduced by Yui and Zagier.

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