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Irreducible binary cubics and the generalized superelliptic equation over number fields

Number Theory 2020-04-20 v2

Abstract

For a large class (heuristically most) of irreducible binary cubic forms F(x,y)Z[x,y]F(x,y) \in \mathbb Z[x,y], Bennett and Dahmen proved that the generalized superelliptic equation F(x,y)=zlF(x,y)=z^l has at most finitely many solutions in x,yZx,y \in \mathbb Z coprime, zZz \in \mathbb Z and exponent lZ4l \in \mathbb Z_{\geq 4} . Their proof uses, among other ingredients, modularity of certain mod ll Galois representations and Ribet's level lowering theorem. The aim of this paper is to treat the same problem for binary cubics with coefficients in OK\mathcal O_K, the ring of integers of an arbitrary number field KK, using by now well-documented modularity conjectures.

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@article{arxiv.1808.04726,
  title  = {Irreducible binary cubics and the generalized superelliptic equation over number fields},
  author = {George Catalin Turcas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.04726},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

Version incorporates improvements suggested by the anonymous referee. Accepted for publication in Acta Arithmetica

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