An interesting family of curves of genus 1 (Q1574358)

Summary: We study the family of elliptic curves \(y^2= x^3-t^2x+ 1\), both over \(\mathbb{Q}(t)\) and over \(\mathbb{Q}\). In the former case, all integral solutions are determined; in the latter case, computation in the range \(1\leq t\leq 999\) shows large ranks are common, giving a particularly simple example of curves which (admittedly over a small range) apparently contradict the once held belief that the rank under specialization tend to have minimal rank consistent with the parity predicted by the Selmer conjecture.