Descent for the punctured universal elliptic curve, and the average number of integral points on elliptic curves

DOI10.4064/AA8458-11-2017zbMATH Open1441.11145arXiv1502.04923OpenAlexW2963913464WikidataQ129693934 ScholiaQ129693934MaRDI QIDQ4581936FDOQ4581936

Authors: Dohyeong Kim 

Publication date: 21 August 2018

Published in: Acta Arithmetica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that the average number of integral points on elliptic curves, counted modulo the natural involution on a punctured elliptic curve, is bounded from above by $2.1imes10^8$. To prove it, we design a descent map, whose prototype goes at least back to Mordell, which associates a pair of binary forms to an integral point on an elliptic curve. Other ingredients of the proof include the upper bounds for the number of solutions of a Thue equation by Evertse and Akhtari-Okazaki, and the estimation of the number of binary quartic forms by Bhargava-Shankar. Our method applies to $S$-integral points to some extent, although our present knowledge is insufficient to deduce an upper bound for the average number of them. We work out the numerical example with $S=2$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.04923

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zbMATH Keywords

elliptic curveintegral pointsThue equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Cubic and quartic Diophantine equations (11D25) Elliptic curves over global fields (11G05) Thue-Mahler equations (11D59)

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• A quantitative version of Siegel's theorem: integral points on elliptic curves and Catalan curves.
• The number of solutions of the Thue-Mahler equation.

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• Averages of the number of points on elliptic curves
• The average number of integral points on the congruent number curves

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