Chabauty and the Mordell-Weil Sieve
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These notes are based on lectures given at the “Arithmetic of Hyperelliptic Curves” workshop, Ohrid, Macedonia, 28 August–5 September 2014. They offer a brief (if somewhat imprecise) sketch of various methods for computing the set of rational points on a curve, focusing on Chabauty and the Mordell–Weil sieve.
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