A note on integral points on elliptic curves

DOI10.5802/JTNB.568zbMATH Open1124.11028arXivmath/0604097OpenAlexW2041152604MaRDI QIDQ2642785FDOQ2642785

Authors: Mark Watkins 

Publication date: 4 September 2007

Published in: Journal de Théorie des Nombres de Bordeaux (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate a problem considered by Zagier and Elkies, of finding large integral points on elliptic curves. By writing down a generic polynomial solution and equating coefficients, we are led to suspect four extremal cases that still might have nondegenerate solutions. Each of these cases gives rise to a polynomial system of equations, the first being solved by Elkies in 1988 using the resultant methods of~Macsyma, with there being a unique rational nondegenerate solution. For the second case we found that resultants and/or Gr"obner bases were not very efficacious. Instead, at the suggestion of Elkies, we used multidimensional $p$-adic Newton iteration, and were able to find a nondegenerate solution, albeit over a quartic number field. Due to our methodology, we do not have much hope of proving that there are no other solutions. For the third case we found a solution in a nonic number field, but we were unable to make much progress with the fourth case. We make a few concluding comments and include an appendix from Elkies regarding his calculations and correspondence with Zagier.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0604097

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zbMATH Keywords

elliptic curvesintegral points

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Elliptic curves over global fields (11G05)

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Uses Software

• Magma
• PARI/GP
• MACSYMA
• BRENT

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