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$E_{6}$ AND THE ARITHMETIC OF A FAMILY OF NON-HYPERELLIPTIC CURVES OF GENUS 3

Part of: Algebraic groups Arithmetic problems. Diophantine geometry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 January 2015

JACK A. THORNE
JACK A. THORNE*
Affiliation:
DPMMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WB, UK; thorne@dpmms.cam.ac.uk

Abstract

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We study the arithmetic of a family of non-hyperelliptic curves of genus 3 over the field $\mathbb{Q}$ of rational numbers. These curves are the nearby fibers of the semi-universal deformation of a simple singularity of type $E_{6}$. We show that average size of the 2-Selmer sets of these curves is finite (if it exists). We use this to show that a positive proposition of these curves (when ordered by height) has integral points everywhere locally, but no integral points globally.

MSC classification

Primary: 14G05: Rational points
Secondary: 14L30: Group actions on varieties or schemes (quotients)

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Forum of Mathematics, Pi , Volume 3 , 2015 , e1
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