Sieving rational points on varieties

Rational points on varieties

Sieving for rational points on hyperelliptic curves

We give a new and efficient method of sieving for rational points on hyperelliptic curves. This method is often successful in proving that a given hyperelliptic curve, suspected to have no rational points, does in fact have no rational points; we have often found this to be the case even when our curve has points over all localizations Qp. We illustrate the practicality of the method with some ...

Counting Rational Points on Algebraic Varieties

In these lectures we will be interested in solutions to Diophantine equations F (x1, . . . , xn) = 0, where F is an absolutely irreducible polynomial with integer coefficients, and the solutions are to satisfy (x1, . . . , xn) ∈ Z. Such an equation represents a hypersurface in A, and we may prefer to talk of integer points on this hypersurface, rather than solutions to the corresponding Diophan...

Counting Rational Points on Ruled Varieties

In this paper, we prove a general result computing the number of rational points of bounded height on a projective variety V which is covered by lines. The main technical result used to achieve this is an upper bound on the number of rational points of bounded height on a line. This upper bound is such that it can be easily controlled as the line varies, and hence is used to sum the counting fu...

Counting Rational Points on Algebraic Varieties

For any N ≥ 2, let Z ⊂ P be a geometrically integral algebraic variety of degree d. This paper is concerned with the number NZ(B) of Q-rational points on Z which have height at most B. For any ε > 0 we establish the estimate NZ(B) = Od,ε,N (B ), provided that d ≥ 6. As indicated, the implied constant depends at most upon d, ε and N . Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): 11G35 (14G05)