Galois representations attached to Q-curves and the generalized Fermat equation A^4 + B^2 = C^p

Details Galois representations attached to Q-curves and the generalized Fermat equation A^4 + B^2 = C^p Galois representations attached to Q-curves and the generalized Fermat equation A^4 + B^2 = C^p

2003-11-27

arxiv.org/abs/math/0311497v1

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Number Theory

20pp. To appear, American Journal of Mathematics

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We show that the mod p Galois representations attached to a Q-curve E of degree d over an imaginary quadratic number field K are surjective for all p larger than some constant M_{K,d}, if E has potentially multiplicative reduction at any prime not dividing 6. The proof uses Mazur's formal immersion method, a result of Darmon and Merel on non-split modular curves, and an analytic argument showing that Jacobians of certain twisted modular curves admit quotients with Mordell-Weil rank 0. In combination with a previous theorem of the author and Skinner on modularity of Q-curves, the surjectivity result allows one to show that the generalized Fermat equation A^4 + B^2 = C^p has no nontrivial primitive solutions for p >= 211.

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