A note on Pépin's counterexamples to the Hasse principle for curves of genus 1 (Q1969649)
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A note on Pépin's counterexamples to the Hasse principle for curves of genus 1 (English)
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19 March 2000
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More than a century ago T. Pépin announced a list of results, without proofs, on the solvability of the equation \(aX^4+ bY^4= Z^2\). In this paper the author develops some techniques based on connections with the 2-class groups of complex quadratic fields which permit to prove these results.
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Hasse principle
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elliptic curves
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torsor
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2-class groups
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complex quadratic fields
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