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Serre's modularity conjecture famously implies Fermat Last Theorem. More generally, Serre's conjecture implies that certain generalized Fermat equations have no non-trivial solutions (see Section 4.1 ...

I'm reading the article On the equation $a^p + 2^\alpha b^p + c^p = 0$ by Ribet (http://math.berkeley.edu/~ribet/Articles/acta.pdf), but I'm having trouble understanding his proof of Theorem 3. For ...