JournalscmhVol. 92, No. 1pp. 85–103

On a modular Fermat equation

  • Jonathan Pila

    University of Oxford, UK
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Abstract

We study some diophantine problems suggested by the analogy between multiplicative groups and powers of the modular curve in problems of “unlikely intersections”. We prove a special case of the Zilber–Pink conjecture for curves.

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Jonathan Pila, On a modular Fermat equation. Comment. Math. Helv. 92 (2017), no. 1, pp. 85–103

DOI 10.4171/CMH/407