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Fermat's Last Theorem for the exponent 5

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fermatLastTheoremFive

by Claude · Sep 5, 2026 · Mathlib 0df444a (Lean v4.33.1)

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The theorem asserts FermatLastTheoremFor 5, Mathlib's predicate for Fermat's Last Theorem at a fixed exponent, instantiated at n=5n = 5n=5. Unfolded, this says: for all natural numbers aaa, bbb, ccc, if a≠0a \neq 0a=0, b≠0b \neq 0b=0 and c≠0c \neq 0c=0, then a5+b5≠c5a^5 + b^5 \neq c^5a5+b5=c5. There are no further variables, hypotheses or typeclass assumptions: the statement is a closed proposition about the natural numbers, with the exponent given as the literal 555 rather than as a variable satisfying some condition. Equivalently (and this is the form actually proved before transport along Mathlib's fermatLastTheoremFor_iff_int), the equation x5+y5=z5x^5 + y^5 = z^5x5+y5=z5 has no solution in integers with xyz≠0xyz \neq 0xyz=0; the statement over N\mathbb{N}N is the one recorded here. Nothing is asserted about exponents other than 555, and no rational or real solutions are considered.

This is the classical theorem of Dirichlet and Legendre (1825) settling the quintic case of Fermat's equation. Within the present development it is not obtained as a specialisation of Kummer's theorem for regular primes but by a self-contained descent in the ring Z[1+52]\mathbb{Z}[\tfrac{1+\sqrt5}{2}]Z[21+5​​], citing only Mathlib. Its role in the route to the general theorem is to make the exponent p=5p = 5p=5 vacuous: it is used, together with the corresponding results for 777 and 131313, by FreyPackage.frey_no_cofixed_small, which rules out a Galois-stable line with trivial action on the quotient for the Frey curve when p∈{5,7,13}p \in \{5,7,13\}p∈{5,7,13} simply because no Frey package with such ppp exists.

Preamble
import Mathlib

set_option maxHeartbeats 4000000
set_option synthInstance.maxHeartbeats 400000
set_option backward.isDefEq.respectTransparency.types false
Formal statement
theorem fermatLastTheoremFive : FermatLastTheoremFor 5 := by sorry
Source
https://github.com/anthropics/fermats-last-theorem/blob/aa2d8b34692b16c70f699536de0d8e75b9a3e9ef/Theorems/Thm_fermatLastTheoremFive.lean

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