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March 2012 Perfect powers generated by the twisted Fermat cubic
Jonathan Reynolds
Funct. Approx. Comment. Math. 46(1): 133-145 (March 2012). DOI: 10.7169/facm/2012.46.1.10

Abstract

On the twisted Fermat cubic, an elliptic divisibility sequence arises as the sequence of denominators of the multiples of a single rational point. It is shown that there are finitely many perfect powers in such a sequence whose first term is greater than $1$. Moreover, if the first term is divisible by $6$ and the generating point is triple another rational point then there are no perfect powers in the sequence except possibly an $l$th power for some $l$ dividing the order of $2$ in the first term.

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Jonathan Reynolds. "Perfect powers generated by the twisted Fermat cubic." Funct. Approx. Comment. Math. 46 (1) 133 - 145, March 2012. https://doi.org/10.7169/facm/2012.46.1.10

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Published: March 2012
First available in Project Euclid: 30 March 2012

zbMATH: 1286.11092
MathSciNet: MR2951734
Digital Object Identifier: 10.7169/facm/2012.46.1.10

Subjects:
Primary: 11G05
Secondary: 11D41

Keywords: elliptic divisibility sequence , Fermat equation , perfect powers

Rights: Copyright © 2012 Adam Mickiewicz University

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