Rational harmonic curves

Rational Harmonic Curves

Rational Curves

Rational curves and splines are one of the building blocks of computer graphics and geometric modeling. Although a rational curve is more exible than its polynomial counterpart , many properties of polynomial curves are not applicable to it. For this reason it is very useful to know if a curve presented as a rational space curve has a polynomial parametrization. In this paper, we present an alg...

K3 Surfaces, Rational Curves, and Rational Points

We prove that for any of a wide class of elliptic surfaces X defined over a number field k, if there is an algebraic point on X that lies on only finitely many rational curves, then there is an algebraic point on X that lies on no rational curves. In particular, our theorem applies to a large class of elliptic K3 surfaces, which relates to a question posed by Bogomolov in 1981. Mathematics Subj...

Rational Curves on Varieties

K3 Surfaces, Rational Curves, and Rational Points

We prove that for any of a wide class of elliptic surfaces X defined over a number field k, if there is an algebraic point on X that lies on only finitely many rational curves, then there is an algebraic point on X that lies on no rational curves. In particular, our theorem applies to a large class of elliptic K3 surfaces, which relates to a question posed by Bogomolov in 1981. Mathematics Subj...