A note on rational points near planar curves

Rational points on curves

Rational points on curves

2 Faltings’ theorem 15 2.1 Prelude: the Shafarevich problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 2.2 First reduction: the Kodaira–Parshin trick . . . . . . . . . . . 17 2.3 Second reduction: passing to the jacobian . . . . . . . . . . . 19 2.4 Third reduction: passing to isogeny classes . . . . . . . . . . . 19 2.5 Fourth reduction: from isogeny classes to `-adic representations 21 2.6 The isogen...

Rational Points on Curves

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 C over Q. The focus is on practical aspects of this problem in the case that the genus of C is at least 2, and therefore the set of rat...

A Note on the Rational Points

Let C be the image of a canonical embedding φ of the Atkin-Lehner quotient X + 0 (N) associated to the Fricke involution w N. Suppose φ is defined over the rationals. In this note we give some collinearity relations among rational points of C, for each X + 0 (N) of genus 3 and the first X + 0 (N) of genus 4, for N prime.

Lectures on rational points on curves