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A positive proportion of Thue equations fail the integral Hasse principle

Number Theory 2022-03-22 v3

Abstract

For any nonzero hZh\in\mathbb{Z}, we prove that a positive proportion of integral binary cubic forms FF do locally everywhere represent hh but do not globally represent hh; that is, a positive proportion of cubic Thue equations F(x,y)=hF(x,y)=h fail the integral Hasse principle. Here, we order all classes of such integral binary cubic forms FF by their absolute discriminants. We prove the same result for Thue equations G(x,y)=hG(x,y)=h of any fixed degree n3n \geq 3, provided that these integral binary nn-ic forms GG are ordered by the maximum of the absolute values of their coefficients.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1603.08623,
  title  = {A positive proportion of Thue equations fail the integral Hasse principle},
  author = {Shabnam Akhtari and Manjul Bhargava},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.08623},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

Previously cited as "A positive proportion of locally soluble Thue equations are globally insoluble", Two typos are fixed and small mathematical error in Section 4 is corrected