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Complements on Furtw\"angler's second theorem and Vandiver' s cyclotomic integers

Number Theory 2011-11-22 v3

Abstract

This article deals with a conjecture generalizing the second case of Fermat's Last Theorem, called SFLT2SFLT2 conjecture: {\it Let p>3p>3 be a prime, K:=\Q(ζ)K:=\Q(\zeta) the ppth cyclotomic field and ZK\Z_K its ring of integers. The diophantine equation (u+vζ)ZK=\mkw1p(u+v\zeta)\Z_K=\mk w_1^p, with u,vZ\{0}u,v\in\Z\backslash\{0\} coprime, uv0modpuv\equiv 0 \bmod p and \mkw1\mk w_1 ideal of ZK\Z_K, has no solution.} Assuming that SFLT2SFLT2 fails for (p,u,v)(p,u,v), let qq be an odd prime not dividing uvuv, nn the order of vumodq\frac{v}{u}\bmod q, ξ\xi a primitive nnth root of unity and M:=\Q(ξ,ζ)M:=\Q(\xi,\zeta). The aim of this complement of the article [GQ] of G. Gras and R. Qu\^eme on the same topic, is to exhibit some strong properties of the decomposition of the primes \mkQ\mk Q of ZM\Z_M over qq in certain Kummer pp-extensions of the field MM, to derive from them a weak conjecture which implies that the SFLT2 equation can always take the reduced form u+ζvK×pu+\zeta v\in K^{\times p} and to set a conjecture implying SFLT2.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1109.0956,
  title  = {Complements on Furtw\"angler's second theorem and Vandiver' s cyclotomic integers},
  author = {Roland Queme},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.0956},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

The two main modifications are: improvement of the statement and proof of theorem 2.12; improvement of the remark 14 of version V2 (remark 15 in this version V3)