\documentclass[11pt,reqno]{amsart} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage{lmodern} \usepackage[final,tracking=smallcaps,protrusion=true,expansion=true]{microtype} \usepackage{amsmath,amssymb,amsthm} \usepackage{mathtools} \usepackage{booktabs} \usepackage{array} \usepackage{needspace} \makeatletter \def\subsection{\@startsection{subsection}{2}\z@{.5\linespacing\@plus.7\linespacing}{-.5em}{\normalfont\bfseries\boldmath}} \def\@captionheadfont{\scshape\microtypesetup{tracking=false}} \def\tocsection#1#2#3{\indentlabel{\@ifnotempty{#2}{\ignorespaces#1 \hbox to 1.4em{#2.\hfil}\quad}}#3} \makeatother \usepackage[shortlabels]{enumitem} \setlist{itemsep=2pt,topsep=4pt,parsep=0pt,partopsep=0pt}\setlist[enumerate]{beginpenalty=10000,font=\upshape} \usepackage{xcolor} \usepackage[letterpaper,textwidth=6in,textheight=8.6in,heightrounded,marginratio=1:1,vmarginratio=1:1]{geometry} \widowpenalty=10000 \clubpenalty=10000 \raggedbottom \addtolength{\skip\footins}{0pt minus 4pt} \setlength{\emergencystretch}{1.5em} \hyphenation{Theorem} \definecolor{linkblue}{RGB}{28,72,140} \usepackage[unicode,colorlinks=true,linkcolor=linkblue,citecolor=linkblue,urlcolor=linkblue]{hyperref} \usepackage[capitalize,noabbrev,nosort]{cleveref} \input{macros} \theoremstyle{plain} \newtheorem{theorem}{Theorem}[section] \newtheorem{proposition}[theorem]{Proposition} \newtheorem{lemma}[theorem]{Lemma} \newtheorem{corollary}[theorem]{Corollary} \newtheorem{maintheorem}{Theorem} \renewcommand{\themaintheorem}{\Alph{maintheorem}} \crefname{maintheorem}{Theorem}{Theorems} \Crefname{maintheorem}{Theorem}{Theorems} \theoremstyle{definition} \newtheorem{definition}[theorem]{Definition} \theoremstyle{remark} \newtheorem{remark}[theorem]{Remark} \numberwithin{equation}{section} \AddToHook{env/proposition/begin}{\crefalias{theorem}{proposition}} \AddToHook{env/lemma/begin}{\crefalias{theorem}{lemma}} \AddToHook{env/corollary/begin}{\crefalias{theorem}{corollary}} \AddToHook{env/definition/begin}{\crefalias{theorem}{definition}} \AddToHook{env/remark/begin}{\crefalias{theorem}{remark}} \begin{document} \title[The equation $x^3+y^3=z^n$]{The generalized Fermat equation $\boldsymbol{x^3+y^3=z^n}$} \author{Manvir Jaswal} \thanks{How AI was used in this work is described under Declarations, p.~\pageref{sec:declarations}.} \address{Toronto, Canada} \email{manvirjaswal@icloud.com} \subjclass[2020]{Primary 11D41; Secondary 11F80, 11R29, 11R42, 14D05, 11G25} \keywords{Generalized Fermat equation, Frey representations, hypergeometric motives, compatible systems of Galois representations, ordinary representations, local generation, discriminant bounds} \hypersetup{pdftitle={The generalized Fermat equation x\unichar{"00B3} + y\unichar{"00B3} = z\unichar{"207F}},pdfauthor={Manvir Jaswal}} \begin{abstract} We prove that the equations $x^3+y^3=z^n$ and $x^3+y^3=3z^n$ have no solution in coprime nonzero integers for any $n\ge3$. For the first equation the open cases were prime exponents $p\equiv1\pmod 3$ above $10^9$ outside a set of congruence classes treated by Chen and Siksek; in these cases the solution $1^3+2^3=3^2$ blocks the modular method. We replace Kraus's Frey curve by a hypergeometric motive of rank three over $K=\Q(\sqrt{-3})$, whose parameter at a solution is $3$-adically close enough to a point of maximally unipotent monodromy for inertia at $\sqrt{-3}$ to act unipotently; the parameter of $1^3+2^3=3^2$ is not. By a theorem of Calegari, Emerton and Gee, the mod~$p$ representation of the fiber, twisted by a cubic character, is the reduction of a member of a compatible system of minimal ramification, and we show that the member at a prime above $3$ is irreducible and ordinary at $\sqrt{-3}$. Ramification and unconditional discriminant bounds show that its reductions have trivial semisimplification, and as the Galois group of the maximal pro-$3$ extension of $K$ unramified outside $\sqrt{-3}$ is generated by one inertia group, the member stabilizes its ordinary line, a contradiction. For $x^3+y^3=3z^n$ the same argument also works at the primes $p\equiv2\pmod3$, which are inert in $K$, and Frey curves and descents treat the remaining exponents. \end{abstract} \maketitle\newpage \setcounter{tocdepth}{1} {\hypersetup{linkcolor=black}\tableofcontents} \input{sections/01-introduction} \input{sections/02-conventions} \part*{\texorpdfstring{\boldmath}{}Part I: a Frey motive of rank three over \texorpdfstring{$\Q(\sqrt{-3})$}{Q(\unichar{"221A}\unichar{"2212}3)}} \input{sections/03-motive} \input{sections/04-inertia3} \input{sections/05-frey} \input{sections/06-irreducibility} \part*{\texorpdfstring{\boldmath}{}Part II: a compatible system and its members above $5$} \input{sections/07-lift} \input{sections/08-bounds} \input{sections/09-reductions} \part*{\texorpdfstring{\boldmath}{}Part III: the member at $3$, and the proof of Theorem~A} \input{sections/10-three} \part*{\texorpdfstring{\boldmath}{}Part IV: the equation \texorpdfstring{$x^3+y^3=3z^n$}{x\unichar{"00B3}+y\unichar{"00B3}=3z\unichar{"207F}}} \input{sections/11-3zp} \part*{Complements} \input{sections/12-remarks} \appendix \crefalias{section}{appendix}\crefalias{subsection}{appendix} \input{sections/13-computations} \bibliographystyle{amsplain} \bibliography{refs} \end{document}