Shimura curves and explicit descent obstructions via level structure

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Abstract: We give large families of Shimura curves defined by congruence conditions, all of whose twists lack p-adic points for some p. For each such curve we give analytically large families of counterexamples to the Hasse principle via the descent (or equivalently 'etale Brauer-Manin) obstruction to rational points applied to 'etale coverings coming from the level structure. More precisely, we find infinitely many quadratic fields defined using congruence conditions such that a twist of a related Shimura curve by each of those fields violates the Hasse principle. As a minimal example, we find the twist of the genus 11 Shimura curve X143 by mathbfQ(sqrt67) and its bi-elliptic involution to violate the Hasse principle.












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