Chabauty Without the Mordell-Weil Group

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-70566-8_28zbMATH Open1425.11131arXiv1506.04286OpenAlexW1621039055MaRDI QIDQ4556596FDOQ4556596

Authors: Michael Stoll 

Publication date: 16 November 2018

Published in: Algorithmic and Experimental Methods in Algebra, Geometry, and Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Based on ideas from recent joint work with Bjorn Poonen, we describe an algorithm that can in certain cases determine the set of rational points on a curve $C$, given only the $p$-Selmer group $S$ of its Jacobian (or some other abelian variety $C$ maps to) and the image of the $p$-Selmer set of $C$ in $S$. The method is more likely to succeed when the genus is large, which is when it is usually rather difficult to obtain generators of a finite-index subgroup of the Mordell-Weil group, which one would need to apply Chabauty's method in the usual way. We give some applications, for example to generalized Fermat equations of the form $x^5+y^5=z^p$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.04286

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zbMATH Keywords

Selmer grouprational points on curvesChabauty's method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

[https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/w/index.php?search=%2211G30%22&title=Special%3ASearch&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns120=1 Curves of arbitrary genus or genus ( e 1) over global fields (11G30)] Rational points (14G05) Global ground fields in algebraic geometry (14G25) Higher degree equations; Fermat's equation (11D41) Computer solution of Diophantine equations (11Y50) Arithmetic ground fields for curves (14H25)

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Uses Software

• Magma
• OEIS

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