Deciding Existence of Rational Points on Curves: An Experiment

DOI10.1080/10586458.2008.10129031MaRDI QIDQ3546261zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael Stoll, Nils Bruin

Publication date 18 December 2008

Published in Experimental Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0604524, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.em/1227118970

zbMATH Keywords

curvesdescentlocal-to-global obstructionrational pointssolvability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Higher degree equations; Fermat's equation (11D41) [https://duckduckgo.com/?q=MSC%2011G30%20%22Curves+of+arbitrary+genus+or+genus+%28%0D%0Ae+1%29+over+global+fields%22 Curves of arbitrary genus or genus ( e 1) over global fields (11G30)] Computer solution of Diophantine equations (11Y50) Rational points (14G05) Computational aspects of algebraic curves (14Q05)

Abstract: We consider all genus 2 curves over Q given by an equation y^2 = f(x) with f a squarefree polynomial of degree 5 or 6, with integral coefficients of absolute value at most 3. For each of these roughly 200000 isomorphism classes of curves, we decide if there is a rational point on the curve or not, by a combination of techniques. For a small number of curves, our result is conditional on the BSD conjecture or on GRH.

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