The method of Thue-Siegel for binary quartic forms
In order to study the behavior of the points in a tower of curves, we introduce and study trivial points on towers of curves, and we discuss their finiteness over number fields. We relate the problem of proving that the only rational points are the trivial ones at some level of the tower, to the unboundeness of the gonality of the curves in the tower, which we show under some hypothesis.
We provide an asymptotic estimate for the number of rational points of bounded height on a non-singular conic over ℚ. The estimate is uniform in the coefficients of the underlying quadratic form.