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An application of the symplectic argument to some Fermat-type Equations

Number Theory 2016-06-15 v1

Abstract

Let pp be a prime number. In the early 2000s, it was proved that the Fermat equations with coefficients 3xp+8yp+21zp=0 and 3xp+4yp+5zp=03x^p + 8y^p + 21z^p =0\quad \text{ and } \quad 3x^p + 4y^p + 5z^p=0 do not admit non-trivial solutions for a set of exponents pp with Dirichlet density 1/4{1/4} and 1/8{1/8}, respectively. In this note, using a recent criterion to decide if two elliptic curves over Q\mathbb{Q} with certain types of additive reduction at 2 have symplectically isomorphic pp-torsion modules, we improve these densities to 3/8{3/8}.

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@article{arxiv.1606.04374,
  title  = {An application of the symplectic argument to some Fermat-type Equations},
  author = {Nuno Freitas and Alain Kraus},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.04374},
  year   = {2016}
}