Chabauty Without the Mordell-Weil Group

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-70566-8_28MaRDI QIDQ4556596zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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)

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

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)

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 $x^5+y^5=z^p$.

Recommendations

• Nonvanishing of L-functions and structure of Mordell-Weil groups.
• Mordell-Weil groups of generic Abelian varieties
• Mordell-Weil groups and Zariski triples
• Chow motives without projectivity
• Explicit Chabauty over number fields
• Chow group of 0-cycles with modulus and higher-dimensional class field theory
• The Weil-Châtelet group, valuations, and the Witt ring
• The Chow group of zero-cycles on certain Châtelet surfaces over local fields
• Chow groups and Borel-Moore schemes

Cites work

• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2024859 (Why is no real title available?)
• 2-descent on the Jacobians of hyperelliptic curves
• Exhibiting SHA[2] on hyperelliptic Jacobians
• Explicit Coleman integration for hyperelliptic curves
• Finite descent obstructions and rational points on curves
• How to do a 𝑝-descent on an elliptic curve
• Implementing 2-descent for Jacobians of hyperelliptic curves
• Independence of rational points on twists of a given curve
• Modular elliptic curves and Fermat's Last Theorem
• Most odd degree hyperelliptic curves have only one rational point
• Odd degree number fields with odd class number
• On the method of Coleman and Chabauty
• Perfect powers expressible as sums of two fifth or seventh powers
• Ring-theoretic properties of certain Hecke algebras
• Statistics of number fields and function fields
• The Magma algebra system. I: The user language
• The Mordell-Weil sieve: proving non-existence of rational points on curves
• The average size of the 2-Selmer group of Jacobians of hyperelliptic curves having a rational Weierstrass point
• Two-cover descent on hyperelliptic curves

Cited in

(7)

• Diagonal genus 5 curves, elliptic curves over \(\mathbb{Q}(t)\), and rational Diophantine quintuples
• On some generalized Fermat equations of the form x2+y2n=zp$x^2+y^{2n} = z^p$
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6604904 (Why is no real title available?)
• Two Recent p-adic Approaches Towards the (Effective) Mordell Conjecture
• The generalized Fermat equation with exponents \(2,3,n\)
• On a class of generalized Fermat equations of signature \((2,2n,3)\)
• Division by 2 on odd-degree hyperelliptic curves and their Jacobians

Describes a project that uses

Uses Software

• OEIS
• Magma

This page was built for publication: Chabauty Without the Mordell-Weil Group

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q4556596)