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A positive proportion of locally soluble quartic Thue equations are globally insoluble

Number Theory 2022-03-22 v2

Abstract

For any fixed nonzero integer hh, we show that a positive proportion of integral binary quartic forms FF do locally everywhere represent hh, but do not globally represent hh. We order classes of integral binary quartic forms by the two generators of their ring of GL2(Z)\textrm{GL}_{2}(\mathbb{Z})-invariants, classically denoted by II and JJ.

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@article{arxiv.2002.00548,
  title  = {A positive proportion of locally soluble quartic Thue equations are globally insoluble},
  author = {Shabnam Akhtari},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.00548},
  year   = {2022}
}

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17 pages, to appear in Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society