Bounding tangencies of sections on elliptic surfaces
Algebraic Geometry
2020-05-27 v2 Number Theory
Abstract
Given an elliptic surface over a field of characteristic zero equipped with zero section and another section of infinite order, we give a simple and explicit upper bound on the number of points where is tangent to a multiple of .
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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}
}
Comments
v2: corrections and additional application after referee report. 24 pages