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Jody Esmonde - Parametric solutions to the generalized Fermat equation
| JODY ESMONDE, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University, Montréal, Québec H3A 2K6, Canada |
| Parametric solutions to the generalized Fermat equation |
We will discuss parametric solutions
![$a(t), b(t), c(t) \in F[t]$](img376.gif){kind=small}
to the
equation
xp+yq=zr, proving that such solutions exist if and only
if
1/p+1/q+1/r>1.
