Pythagorean primes and palindromic continued fractions.
We investigate the average number of solutions of certain quadratic congruences. As an application, we establish Manin's conjecture for a cubic surface whose singularity type is A₅ + A₁.
Soit un sous-groupe du groupe multiplicatif de , et . On note l’ensemble des éléments de s’écrivant avec pour tout . Soient et deux suites de nombres complexes vérifiant des relations de récurrence à coefficients polynômes en la variable (suites holonomes), avec pour assez grand. Dans cet article, nous nous intéressons au problème suivant :Soit , on suppose que pour un entier , appartient à où est sous-groupe de type fini du groupe multiplicatif de .A-t-on que la...
We consider Thue equations of the form , and assuming the truth of the abc-conjecture, we show that almost all locally soluble Thue equations of degree at least three violate the Hasse principle. A similar conclusion holds true for Fermat equations of degree at least six.
We report on a large-scale project to investigate the ranks of elliptic curves in a quadratic twist family, focussing on the congruent number curve. Our methods to exclude candidate curves include 2-Selmer, 4-Selmer, and 8-Selmer tests, the use of the Guinand-Weil explicit formula, and even 3-descent in a couple of cases. We find that rank 6 quadratic twists are reasonably common (though still quite difficult to find), while rank 7 twists seem much more rare. We also describe our inability to find...
Let be a compact subanalytic surface. This paper shows that, in a suitable sense, there are very few rational points of that do not lie on some connected semialgebraic curve contained in .
This is an extended version of an invited lecture I gave at the Journées Arithmétiques in St. Étienne in July 2009.We discuss the state of the art regarding the problem of finding the set of rational points on a (smooth projective) geometrically integral curve over . The focus is on practical aspects of this problem in the case that the genus of is at least , and therefore the set of rational points is finite.