Deciding Existence of Rational Points on Curves: An Experiment
Deciding Existence of Rational Points on Curves: An Experiment
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确定曲线上有理点的存在:一个实验
DOI:
10.1080/10586458.2008.10129031
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发表时间:
2006
影响因子:
0.5
通讯作者:
M. Stoll
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作者:
Nils Bruin;M. Stoll
In this paper we gather experimental evidence related to the question of deciding whether a curve has a rational point. We consider all genus-2 curves over ℚ given by an equation y 2 = f(x) with f a square-free polynomial of degree 5 or 6, with integral coefficients of absolute value at most 3. For each of these roughly 200 000 isomorphism classes of curves, we decide whether there is a rational point on the curve by a combination of techniques that are applicable to hyperelliptic curves in general. In order to carry out our project, we have improved and optimized some of these techniques. For 42 of the curves, our result is conditional on the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture or on the generalized Riemann hypothesis.