The cyclotomic ideal-power conjecture for Fermat-type elements

Let pp be a prime number with p>3p>3, let K=Q(ζ)K=\mathbb{Q}(\zeta) where ζ\zeta is a primitive ppth root of unity, and put

p=(1ζ)Z[ζ].\mathfrak p=(1-\zeta)\mathbb{Z}[\zeta].

For nonzero relatively prime integers x,yx,y, consider the ideal equation

(x+yζ)Z[ζ]=pzporzp,(x+y\zeta)\mathbb{Z}[\zeta]=\mathfrak p\mathfrak z^p\quad\text{or}\quad \mathfrak z^p,

according as x+y0(modp)x+y\equiv0\pmod p or not, where z\mathfrak z is an ideal of KK prime to p\mathfrak p.

The cyclotomic ideal-power conjecture. This equation has no solution except in the trivial cases

x+yζ=±(1ζ)or±(1+ζ).x+y\zeta=\pm(1-\zeta)\quad\text{or}\quad \pm(1+\zeta).

This conjecture is suggested by the preceding computations and by proofs of Fermat's Last Theorem in particular cases; its resolution is not indicated in the source.

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Primary source

Georges Gras, “Analysis of the classical cyclotomic approach to fermat's last theorem”, arXiv:1103.4458 (2011).

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