Finding rational points on elliptic curves using 6-descent and 12-descent

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2008.04.007zbMATH Open1149.14025arXiv0711.3774OpenAlexW2963478770MaRDI QIDQ947500FDOQ947500

Authors: Tom Fisher 

Publication date: 6 October 2008

Published in: Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We explain how recent work on 3-descent and 4-descent for elliptic curves over Q can be combined to search for generators of the Mordell-Weil group of large height. As an application we show that every elliptic curve of prime conductor in the Stein-Watkins database has rank at least as large as predicted by the conjecture of Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0711.3774

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zbMATH Keywords

elliptic curvesinvariant theorycomputational number theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Elliptic curves over global fields (11G05) Rational points (14G05)

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• Magma

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