A p-adic approach to rational points on curves

DOI10.1090/BULL/1707MaRDI QIDQ5146570zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Bjorn Poonen

Publication date 26 January 2021

Published in Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01774

zbMATH Keywords

\(p\)-adic numbercurveGalois representationgenusMordell conjecturerational point

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Curves over finite and local fields (11G20) [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)] Variation of Hodge structures (algebro-geometric aspects) (14D07) Arithmetic ground fields (finite, local, global) and families or fibrations (14D10) Rational points (14G05) Arithmetic ground fields for curves (14H25)

Abstract: In 1922, Mordell conjectured the striking statement that for a polynomial equation $f(x,y)=0$, if the topology of the set of complex number solutions is complicated enough, then the set of rational number solutions is finite. This was proved by Faltings in 1983, and again by a different method by Vojta in 1991, but neither proof provided a way to provably find all the rational solutions, so the search for other proofs has continued. Recently, Lawrence and Venkatesh found a third proof, relying on variation in families of $p$-adic Galois representations; this is the subject of the present exposition.

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