On nonary cubic forms.
Let be a prime and a -adic field (a finite extension of the field of -adic numbers ). We employ the main results in [12] and the arithmetic of elliptic curves over to reduce the problem of classifying 3-dimensional non-associative division algebras (up to isotopy) over to the classification of ternary cubic forms over (up to equivalence) with no non-trivial zeros over . We give an explicit solution to the latter problem, which we then relate to the reduction type of the jacobian...
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.
For any positive power n of a prime p we find a complete set of generating relations between the elements [r] = rⁿ - r and p·1 of a unitary commutative ring.