Perfect powers in elliptic divisibility sequences
Abstract
Let be an elliptic curve over the rationals given by an integral Weierstrass model and let be a rational point of infinite order. The multiple has the form where , , are integers with and coprime, and positive. The sequence is called the elliptic divisibility sequence generated by . This paper is concerned with a question posed in 2007 by Everest, Reynolds and Stevens: does the sequence contain only finitely many perfect powers? We answer this question positively under three additional assumptions: is non-integral, the discriminant of is positive, and belongs to the connected real component of the identity on . Our method attaches to the problem a Frey curve that is defined over a totally real field of degree at most , and then makes use of modularity and level lowering arguments. We can deduce the same theorem without assuming that the discriminant of is positive, or assuming that belongs to the connected real component of the identity, provided we assume some standard conjectures from the Langlands programme.
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@article{arxiv.2312.08997,
title = {Perfect powers in elliptic divisibility sequences},
author = {Maryam Nowroozi and Samir Siksek},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.08997},
year = {2023}
}