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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

We describe a strategy to attack infinitely many Fermat-type equations of signature $(r,r,p)$, where $r \geq 7$ is a fixed prime and $p$ is a prime allowed to vary. We use a variant of the modular method over totally real subfields of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2013-11-01 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 are interested in solving the Fermat-type equations x^5+y^5=dz^p where d is a positive integer and p a prime number $\ge 7$. We describe a new method based on modularity theorems which allows us to improve all the results…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2008-06-11 Nicolas Billerey , Luis Dieulefait

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

Let $n \in \mathbb{Z}_{\geq 2}$. We study the generalized Fermat equation \[x^{13}+y^{13}=z^n, \quad x,y,z \in \mathbb{Z}, \quad \gcd(x,y,z)=1.\] Using a combination of techniques, including the modular method, classical descent, unit…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Alex J. Best , Sander R. Dahmen , Nuno Freitas

In this article we study solutions to the generalized Fermat equation $x^q+y^p+z^r=0 $ using hypergeometric motives within the framework of the modular method. In doing so, we give an explicit description of the ramification behavior at…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Ariel Pacetti , Lucas Villagra Torcomian

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

We provide several extensions of the modular method which were motivated by the problem of completing previous work to prove that, for any integer $n \geq 2$, the equation \[ x^{13} + y^{13} = 3 z^n \] has no non-trivial solutions. In…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-10 Nicolas Billerey , Iimin Chen , Lassina Dembele , Luis Dieulefait , Nuno Freitas

Fix a rational prime $r \geq 5$. In this article, we study the integer solutions of the generalized Fermat equation of signature $(2p,2q,r)$, namely $x^{2p}+y^{2q}=z^r$, where the primes $p,q \geq 5$ are varying. For each rational prime $r…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-26 Satyabrat Sahoo

We solve the Fermat-type equation \[ x^{13} + y^{13} = 3 z^7, \qquad \gcd(x,y,z) = 1 \] combining a unit sieve, the multi-Frey modular method, level raising, computations of systems of eigenvalues modulo 7 over a totally real field, and…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Nicolas Billerey , Imin Chen , Lassina Dembélé , Luis Dieulefait , Nuno Freitas

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 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

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

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

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

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

Let $K$ be a totally real field, and $r\geq 5$ a fixed rational prime. In this paper, we use the modular method as presented in the recent work of Freitas and Siksek to study non-trivial, primitive solutions $(x,y,z) \in \mathcal{O}_K^3$ of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-12-22 Diana Mocanu

Using modularity, level lowering, and explicit computations with Hilbert modular forms, Galois representations and ray class groups, we show that for $3 \le d \le 23$ squarefree, $d \ne 5$, $17$, the Fermat equation $x^n+y^n=z^n$ has no…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Nuno Freitas , Samir Siksek

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
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