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In 2000, Darmon described a program to study the generalized Fermat equation using modularity of abelian varieties of $\mathrm{GL}_2$-type over totally real fields. The original approach was based on hard open conjectures, which have made…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-17 Nicolas Billerey , Imin Chen , Luis Dieulefait , Nuno Freitas

We obtain additional Diophantine applications of the methods surrounding Darmon's program for the generalized Fermat equation developed in the first part of this series of papers. As a first application, we use a multi-Frey approach…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Nicolas Billerey , Imin Chen , Luis Dielefait , Nuno Freitas

In this paper we carry out the steps of Darmon's program for the generalized Fermat equation $$ x^n + y^n = z^5. $$ In particular, we develop the machinery necessary to prove an optimal bound on the exponent $n$ for solutions satisfying…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-01-15 Imin Chen , Angelos Koutsianas

In this paper, we develop the modular method for the generalized Fermat equation appearing in the title, within the framework of Darmon's program and using Frey hyperelliptic curves. As an application, we study a conjecture of Laradji,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Pedro-José Cazorla García , Angelos Koutsianas , Lucas Villagra-Torcomian

We prove two results concerning the generalized Fermat equation $x^4+y^4=z^p$. In particular we prove that the First Case is true if $p \neq 7$.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Luis Dieulefait

We solve the diophantine equations x^4 + d y^2 = z^p for d=2 and d=3 and any prime p>349 and p>131 respectively. The method consists in generalizing the ideas applied by Frey, Ribet and Wiles in the solution of Fermat's Last Theorem, and by…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2008-04-14 Luis Dieulefait , Jorge Jimenez Urroz

Recent results of Freitas, Kraus, Sengun and Siksek give sufficient criteria for the asymptotic Fermat's Last Theorem to hold over various number fields. In this paper, we prove asymptotic results about the solutions of the Diophantine…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-22 Erman Isik

This note proves two theorems regarding Fermat-type equation $x^r + y^r = dz^p$ where $r \geq 5$ is a prime. Our main result shows that, for infinitely many integers~$d$, the previous equation has no non-trivial primitive solutions such…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-13 Nuno Freitas , Filip Najman

We solve the Diophantine equations $x^5 + y^5 = dz^p$ with $d=2, 3$ for a set of prime numbers of density 1/4, 1/2, respectively. The method consists in relating a possible solution to another Diophantine equation and solving the later by…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2011-03-29 Luis Dieulefait , Nuno Freitas

The primary aim of this paper is to study the generalized Fermat equation \[ x^2+y^{2n} = z^{3p} \] in coprime integers $x$, $y$, and $z$, where $n \geq 2$ and $p$ is a fixed prime. Using modularity results over totally real fields and the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-04-14 Philippe Michaud-Jacobs

Let $K$ be a number field. Using the modular method, we prove asymptotic results on solutions of the Diophantine equation $x^4-y^2=z^p$ over $K$, assuming some deep but standard conjectures of the Langlands programme when $K$ has at least…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Lucas Villagra Torcomian

In this paper, we give a resolution of the generalized Fermat equations $$x^5 + y^5 = 3 z^n \text{ and } x^{13} + y^{13} = 3 z^n,$$ for all integers $n \ge 2$, and all integers $n \ge 2$ which are not a multiple of $7$, respectively, using…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-09 Nicolas Billerey , Imin Chen , Luis Dieulefait , Nuno Freitas

We study the Generalized Fermat Equation $x^2 + y^3 = z^p$, to be solved in coprime integers, where $p \ge 7$ is prime. Using modularity and level lowering techniques, the problem can be reduced to the determination of the sets of rational…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-06-17 Nuno Freitas , Bartosz Naskrecki , Michael Stoll

In this paper, we prove results about solutions of the Diophantine equation $x^p+y^p=z^3$ over various number fields using the modular method. Firstly, by assuming some standard modularity conjecture we prove an asymptotic result for…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-10 Erman Isik , Yasemin Kara , Ekin Ozman

In the beautiful article [11] Darmon proposed a program to study integral solutions of the generalized Fermat equation $Ax^p+By^q=Cz^r$. In the aforementioned article, Darmon proved many steps of the program, by exhibiting models of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-18 Franco Golfieri Madriaga , Ariel Pacetti

We follow the ideas of Darmon's program for solving infinite families of generalised Fermat equations of signatures $(p,p,r)$ and $(r,r,p)$, where, $r$ is a fixed prime and $p$ is varying. We do so by introducing a common framework for both…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-04 Martin Azon

In a recent paper, Freitas and Siksek proved an asypmtotic version of Fermat's Last Theorem for many totally real fields. We prove an extension of their result to generalized Fermat equations of the form $A x^p+B y^p+ C z^p=0$, where $A$,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-05-25 Heline Deconinck

Following the famous proof of Fermat's Last Theorem by Andrew Wiles using the modularity of elliptic curves over $\mathbb{Q}$, significant developments have been made in the study of Diophantine equations using the modularity method. This…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Satyabrat Sahoo

Let $p$ be a prime integer, $\mathbb{Z}_p$ the finite field of order $p$ and $\mathbb{Z}^{*}_{p}$ is its multiplicative cyclic group. We consider the Diophantine equation $x^n + y^n = z^n$ with $1 \leq n \leq \frac{p - 1}{2}$. Our main aim…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-01-10 Silvia R. Valdes , Yelena Shvets

Let K be a totally real Galois number field and let A be a set of elliptic curves over K. We give sufficient conditions for the existence of a finite computable set of rational primes P such that for p not in P and E in A, the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-07-17 Nuno Freitas , Samir Siksek
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