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Speaker:
Nuno Freitas
Affiliation:
ICMAT, Madrid/MPIM
Date:
Thu, 14/08/2025 - 16:30 - 17:00
Location:
MPIM Lecture Hall
Parent event:
Number theory lunch seminar The modular method is a fantastic tool to solve families of Diophantine
equations with a varying exponent, but it often fails for small values of
the exponent. For example, the Fermat-type equation $x13+y13=3z^p$ has been
solved for all $p\ne 7$. In this talk, we will discuss how a combination of a
unit sieve, the modular method, level raising and computations of systems
of eigenvalues modulo $7$, and results for reducibility of certain Galois
representations, allows us to solve the missing case $p=7$.
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