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A New Generalization of Fermat's Last Theorem

Number Theory 2014-03-05 v4

Abstract

In this paper, we consider some hybrid Diophantine equations of addition and multiplication. We first improve a result on new Hilbert-Waring problem. Then we consider the equation \begin{equation} \begin{cases} A+B=C ABC=D^n \end{cases} \end{equation} where A,B,C,D,n\ZZ+A,B,C,D,n \in\ZZ_{+} and n3n\geq3, which may be regarded as a generalization of Fermat's equation xn+yn=znx^n+y^n=z^n. When gcd(A,B,C)=1\gcd(A,B,C)=1, (1)(1) is equivalent to Fermat's equation, which means it has no positive integer solutions. We discuss several cases for gcd(A,B,C)=pk\gcd(A,B,C)=p^k where pp is an odd prime. In particular, for k=1k=1 we prove that (1)(1) has no nonzero integer solutions when n=3n=3 and we conjecture that it is also true for any prime n>3n>3. Finally, we consider equation (1)(1) in quadratic fields Q(t)\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{t}) for n=3n=3.

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@article{arxiv.1310.0897,
  title  = {A New Generalization of Fermat's Last Theorem},
  author = {Tianxin Cai and Deyi Chen and Yong Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.0897},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

11 pages, revised

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