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Bielliptic smooth plane curves and quadratic points

Number Theory 2018-05-09 v1 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

Let CkC_k be a smooth projective curve over a global field kk, which is neither rational nor elliptic. Harris-Silverman, when p=0p=0, and Schweizer, when p>0p>0 together with an extra condition on the Jacobian variety Jac(Ck)\operatorname{Jac}(C_k) arising from Mordell's conjecture, showed that CC has infinitely many quadratic points over some finite field extension L/kL/k inside k\overline{k} (a fixed algebraic closure of kk) if and only if CC is hyperelliptic or bielliptic. Now, let CkC_k be a smooth plane curve of a fixed degree d4d\geq4 with p=0p=0 or p>(d1)(d2)+1p>(d-1)(d-2)+1 (up to an extra condition on Jac(Ck)\operatorname{Jac}(C_k) in positive characteristic). Then, we prove that CkC_k admits always finitely many quadratic points unless d=4d=4. 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 k(D)k(\sqrt{D}) of a fixed number field kk, in which we may have more solutions to the Fermat's and the Klein's equations of degree d5d\geq5; Xd+YdZd=0X^d+Y^d-Z^d=0 and Xd1Y+Yd1Z+Zd1X=0X^{d-1}Y+Y^{d-1}Z+Z^{d-1}X=0 respectively, than these over kk (the same holds for any non-singular projective plane equation of degree d5d\geq 5 over kk, and also in general when kk is a global field after imposing an extra condition on Jac(Ck)\operatorname{Jac}(C_k)).

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@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}
}
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