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Uniformity for the Number of Rational Points on a Curve

ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY & NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR

Date: Thursday, April 1, 2021 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker: Philipp Habegger (University of Basel)
Location: https://mathseminars.org/seminar/AGNTISTA
Series: Mathematics and CS Seminar
Host: Tim Browning

By Faltings's Theorem, formerly known as the Mordell Conjecture, a smooth projective curve of genus at least 2 that is defined over a number field K has at most finitely many K-rational points. Votja later gave a second proof. Many authors, including Bombieri, de Diego, Parshin, Rémond, Vojta, proved upper bounds for the number of K-rational points. I will discuss joint work with Vesselin Dimitrov and Ziyang Gao where we prove that the number of points on the curve is bounded from above as a function of K, the genus, and the rank of the Mordell-Weil group of the curve's Jacobian. We follow Vojta's approach to the Mordell Conjecture. I will explain the new feature: an inequality for the Néron-Tate height in a family of abelian varieties. It allows us to bound from above the number of points whose height is in the intermediate range.


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