Bielliptic smooth plane curves and quadratic points
Abstract
Let be a smooth projective curve over a global field , which is neither rational nor elliptic. Harris-Silverman, when , and Schweizer, when together with an extra condition on the Jacobian variety arising from Mordell's conjecture, showed that has infinitely many quadratic points over some finite field extension inside (a fixed algebraic closure of ) if and only if is hyperelliptic or bielliptic. Now, let be a smooth plane curve of a fixed degree with or (up to an extra condition on in positive characteristic). Then, we prove that admits always finitely many quadratic points unless . A so-called \emph{geometrically complete families} for the different strata of smooth bielliptic plane quartic curves by their automorphism groups, are given. Interestingly, we show (in a very simple way) that there are only finitely many quadratic extensions of a fixed number field , in which we may have more solutions to the Fermat's and the Klein's equations of degree ; and respectively, than these over (the same holds for any non-singular projective plane equation of degree over , and also in general when is a global field after imposing an extra condition on ).
Cite
@article{arxiv.1805.02978,
title = {Bielliptic smooth plane curves and quadratic points},
author = {Eslam Badr and Francesc Bars},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.02978},
year = {2018}
}