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A019590 Fermat's Last Theorem: a(n) = 1 if x^n + y^n = z^n has a nontrivial solution in integers, otherwise a(n) = 0. 119

%I #174 Feb 07 2024 01:16:39

%S 1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,

%T 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,

%U 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0

%N Fermat's Last Theorem: a(n) = 1 if x^n + y^n = z^n has a nontrivial solution in integers, otherwise a(n) = 0.

%C a(n) is the Hankel transform of A000045(n), n>=1 (Fibonacci numbers). See A055879 for the definition of Hankel transform. - _Wolfdieter Lang_, Jan 23 2007

%C 1, -1, 0, 0, 0, ... is the convolutional inverse of the all-ones sequence. - _Tanya Khovanova_, Jun 29 2007

%C Also parity of the Euler totient function A000010. - _Omar E. Pol_, Jan 15 2012

%C a(n-1) gives the row sums of A048994. - _Wolfdieter Lang_, May 09 2017

%C Decimal expansion of 11/10. - _Franklin T. Adams-Watters_, Mar 08 2019

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%H Andrei Asinowski, Cyril Banderier, Valerie Roitner, <a href="https://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/~banderier/Papers/several_patterns.pdf">Generating functions for lattice paths with several forbidden patterns</a>, (2019).

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%H C. S. Chinea, <a href="http://personales.ya.com/casanchi/mat/conjeturafermat.pdf">Sobre La Conjetura de Fermat(Text in Italian)</a>

%H K. Choi, <a href="http://www.public.iastate.edu/~kchoi/fermat.htm">A Note on Fermat's Last Theorem-Was it a Right Question?</a>

%H K. Choi, <a href="http://www.public.iastate.edu/~kchoi/time.htm">Timeline of FLT</a>

%H K. Conrad, <a href="http://www.math.uconn.edu/~kconrad/blurbs/fltreg.pdf">Fermat's Last Theorem For Regular Primes</a>

%H P. Daley, <a href="http://people.bath.ac.uk/pid20/fermat.html">Fermat's Last Theorem</a>

%H C. Daney, <a href="http://aux.planetmath.org/files/lec/4/flt.pdf">The Proof of Fermat's Last Theorem</a>

%H H. Darmon, <a href="http://www.ams.org/notices/199911/comm-darmon.pdf">A Proof of the Full Shimura-Taniyama-Weil Conjecture Is Announced</a>

%H H. Darmon, <a href="http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/correct/474804">The Shimura-Taniyama conjecture (d'apres Wiles)</a>

%H K. M. Evans, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091027025450/http://geocities.com/kerryme47714">In Defense of Mr. Fermat</a>

%H G. Faltings, <a href="http://www.ams.org/notices/199507/faltings.pdf">The Proof of Fermat's Last Theorem by R.Taylor and A.Wiles</a>

%H Larry Freeman's Blog Spot, <a href="http://fermatslasttheorem.blogspot.com/2005_04_24_archive.html">Fermat's Last Theorem</a>

%H Daniele A. Gewurz and Francesca Merola, <a href="https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/journals/JIS/VOL6/Gewurz/gewurz5.html">Sequences realized as Parker vectors of oligomorphic permutation groups</a>, J. Integer Seqs., Vol. 6, 2003.

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%H W. F. Hammond, <a href="http://www.albany.edu/~hammond/gellmu/examples/f356g.pdf">Fermat's Last Theorem after 356 years</a>

%H W. F. Hammond, <a href="http://math.albany.edu:8010/g/Math/topics/fermat">Wiles,Ribet,Shimura-Taniyama-Weil and Fermat's Last Theorem</a>

%H T. Hausberger, <a href="http://www.math.univ-montp2.fr/~hausberg/ens/licence/fermat/index.html">Autour du dernier Theoreme de Fermat</a>

%H S. Horsler, <a href="http://people.bath.ac.uk/ma3sah">Home Page on FLT</a>

%H A. Jackson, <a href="http://www.ams.org/notices/199710/comm-fermat.pdf">Review of "Fermat's Enigma" by S.Singh</a>

%H M. Jaiclin, <a href="http://www.brockport.edu/math/mathclub/fermat.talk.pdf">What Makes Fermat's Last Theorem So Hard, Anyway?</a>

%H D. Kaminski, <a href="http://www.cs.uleth.ca/~kaminski/esferm03.html">The extraordinary story of Fermat's Last Theorem</a>

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%H L. Lemaire, <a href="http://www.ulb.ac.be/assoc/bms/info/rechmath.pdf">Le theoreme de Fermat-Wiles (pages 5-11/35)</a>

%H R. Lisker, <a href="http://rendezvous.com/tangledweb/conferences/fermat">Fermat's Last Theorem (Conference Report)</a>

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%H M. Marcionelli, <a href="http://www.math.ethz.ch/~michele/AZ/fr/ind_Fermat.html">La conjecture de Fermat</a>

%H Mathematical Database, Poster, <a href="http://mathdb.org/gallery/poster/description/e_poster_02.htm">Fermat's Last Theorem</a>

%H Mathforum, <a href="http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.fermat.html">Fermat's Last Theorem</a>

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%H J. J. O'Connor and E. F. Robertson, <a href="http://www.math.uga.edu/~schang/math/fermat.pdf">Fermat's Last Theorem</a>

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%H School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, <a href="http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Fermat&#39;s_last_theorem.html">Fermat's last theorem</a>.

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%H D. Shay, <a href="http://fermat.workjoke.com">Fermat's Last Theorem</a>

%H S. Singh, <a href="http://www.simonsingh.com/Fermat_Corner.html">Fermat Corner</a>

%H S. Singh, <a href="http://www.prometheus.demon.co.uk/01/01fermat.htm">Fermat's Last Theorem</a>

%H S. Somani, <a href="http://web.bii.a-star.edu.sg/slides/journal/2002/Fermat_Last_Theorem.pdf">The Saga of Fermat's Last Theorem</a>

%H K. Spiliopoulos, <a href="http://users.forthnet.gr/ath/kimon/FLTmilestones.htm">The Final Milestones in the Proof of Fermat's Last Theorem</a>

%H S. Stedman, <a href="http://students.bath.ac.uk/ma0sjbs/fermat.html">Fermat's Last Theorem</a>

%H W. A. Stein, <a href="http://wstein.org/edu/Fall2001/124/lectures/lecture32/lecture32">Fermat's Last Theorem and Modularity of Elliptic Curves</a>

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%H D. Surendran, <a href="http://www.uz.ac.zw/science/maths/zimaths/flt.htm">Fermat's Last Theorem</a>

%H Think Quest, <a href="http://library.thinkquest.org/28049/final_stages_in_proving_fermat.htm">The final stages in proving Fermats Last Theorem</a>

%H C. Thornhill, <a href="http://www.missouri.edu/~cst398/fermat/fermat1.htm">Fermat's Last Theorem</a>

%H A. van der Poorten, <a href="http://www.maths.mq.edu.au/~alf/NotesonFLT.html">"Notes on Fermat's Last Theorem": Table of Contents</a>

%H A. van der Poorten, <a href="http://www-centre.mpce.mq.edu.au/alfpapers/a142e.pdf">Fermat's Last Theorem</a>

%H D. L. Vestal, <a href="http://www.maa.org/reviews/fermatwiles.html">Review of "Invitation to the Mathematics of Fermat-Wiles" by Y. Hellegouarch</a>

%H G. Villemin's Almanach of Numbers, <a href="http://villemin.gerard.free.fr/Wwwgvmm/Addition/ThFermat.htm">Theoreme de Fermat-Wiles</a>

%H Wikipedia, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat&#39;s_Last_Theorem">Fermat's Last Theorem</a>

%H A. J. Wiles, <a href="https://wstein.org/edu/Spring2003/21n/papers/Wiles,Modular_Elliptic_Curves_and_Fermats_Last_Theorem.pdf">Modular elliptic curves and Fermat's last theorem</a>, Ann. Math. 141 (1995), 443-551, <a href="https://doi.org/10.2307/2118559">doi:10.2307/2118559</a>.

%H T. Yee, <a href="http://ihome.ust.hk/~tonyee/flt.htm">The Fermat's Last Theorem(FLT)</a>

%H Yan X Zhang, <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.00318">Four Variations on Graded Posets</a>, arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.00318 [math.CO], 2015.

%H <a href="/index/Ch#char_fns">Index entries for characteristic functions</a>

%F a(n) = (-1)^n*Sum_{k=0..floor(n/2)} (-1)^A010060(n-2k) mod (C(n, 2k), 2). - _Paul Barry_, Jan 03 2005

%F Euler transform of length 2 sequence [1, -1]. - _Michael Somos_, Jul 05 2009

%F a(n) is multiplicative with a(2) = 1, a(2^e) = 0 if e > 1, a(p^e) = 0^e if p > 2. - _Michael Somos_, Jul 05 2009

%F G.f.: x + x^2 = x * (1 - x^2) / (1 - x). - _Michael Somos_, Jul 05 2009

%F Dirichlet g.f.: 1 + 2^(-s). - _Michael Somos_, Jul 05 2009

%F a(n) = A000035(A000010(n)). - _Omar E. Pol_, Oct 28 2013

%o (PARI) {a(n) = (n==1) + (n==2)}; /* _Michael Somos_, Jul 05 2009 */

%Y Cf. A000004, A000007, A010051, A012450.

%Y INVERT transform gives Fibonacci numbers, A000045.

%Y Convolution inverse of A062157. Dirichlet convolution inverse of A154269.

%Y Cf. A229382, A229383 (near-miss counterexamples to FLT).

%Y Cf. A048994 (row sums).

%K nonn,nice,easy,mult

%O 1,1

%A _N. J. A. Sloane_

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