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Bounding tangencies of sections on elliptic surfaces

Algebraic Geometry 2020-05-27 v2 Number Theory

Abstract

Given an elliptic surface EC\mathcal{E}\to\mathcal{C} over a field kk of characteristic zero equipped with zero section OO and another section PP of infinite order, we give a simple and explicit upper bound on the number of points where OO is tangent to a multiple of PP.

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@article{arxiv.2002.01906,
  title  = {Bounding tangencies of sections on elliptic surfaces},
  author = {Douglas Ulmer and Giancarlo Urzúa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.01906},
  year   = {2020}
}

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v2: corrections and additional application after referee report. 24 pages

R2 v1 2026-06-23T13:32:12.040Z