Open AccessA Deeper Analysis on a Generalization of Fermat´s Last Theorem
Author(s) -
Leandro Torres Di Gregório
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of mathematics research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1916-9809
pISSN - 1916-9795
DOI - 10.5539/jmr.v10n2p1
Subject(s) - counterexample , fermat's last theorem , conjecture , mathematics , generalization , prime (order theory) , beal's conjecture , regular prime , combinatorics , discrete mathematics , domain (mathematical analysis) , danskin's theorem , mathematical analysis , picard–lindelöf theorem , fixed point theorem
In 1997, the following conjecture was considered by Mauldin as a generalization of Fermat's Last Theorem: “for X, Y, Z, n$_1$, n$_2$ and n$_3$ positive integers with n$_1$, n$_2$, n$_3$> 2, if $X^{n$_1$} + Y^{n$_2$}= Z^{n$_3$}$ then X, Y, Z must have a common prime factor”. The present work provides an investigation focusing in various aspects of this conjecture, exploring the problem´s specificities with graphic resources and offering a complementary approach to the arguments presented in our previous paper. In fact, we recently discovered the general form of the counterexamples of this conjecture, what is explored in detail in this article. We also analyzed the domain in which the conjecture is valid, defined the situations in which it could fail and previewed some characteristics of its exceptions, in an analytical way.