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February 6, 20260 citationsOpen Access

Geometric Obstructions to Sums of Higher Powers with Remarks Related to Beal's Conjecture

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NGNiloufar Gordanpour

Key Points

  • This work aims to provide a geometric framework for understanding Beal’s Conjecture and its implications for higher-power sums.
  • Introduces a five-principle framework to understand higher power sums
  • Explores the uneven expansion of higher powers
  • Discusses the necessity of a common divisor for monomial collapse
  • Analyzes geometric growth rates for coprime bases
  • Examines lattice obstructions arising from incompatible sublattices
  • Highlights the rigidity of higher-power sums due to structural and geometric constraints
  • Clarifies why the quadratic case is exceptional compared to higher powers

Abstract

This note presents a heuristic and geometric perspective on Beal’s Conjecture, an open problem in number theory asserting that any solution to aˣ + bʸ = cᶻ (x, y, z > 2) must involve integers sharing a common prime divisor. The work introduces a five-principle framework: 1. uneven expansion of higher powers, 2. necessity of a common divisor for monomial collapse, 3. explosion of intermediate terms, 4. incompatibility of geometric growth rates for coprime bases, 5. lattice obstructions from incompatible sublattices. While not a formal proof, this approach provides a structural and geometric explanation for the rigidity of higher-power sums and clarifies why the quadratic (Pythagorean) case is exceptional.

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Niloufar Gordanpour (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/698585fe8f7c464f23009d09https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18471093
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