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Constructions of diagonal quartic and sextic surfaces with infinitely many rational points

Number Theory 2014-02-20 v1

Abstract

In this note we construct several infinite families of diagonal quartic surfaces \begin{equation*} ax^4+by^4+cz^4+dw^4=0, \end{equation*} where a,b,c,dZ{0}a,b,c,d\in\Z\setminus\{0\} with infinitely many rational points and satisfying the condition abcdabcd\neq \square. In particular, we present an infinite family of diagonal quartic surfaces defined over \Q\Q with Picard number equal to one and possessing infinitely many rational points. Further, we present some sextic surfaces of type ax6+by6+cz6+dwi=0ax^6+by^6+cz^6+dw^i=0, i=2i=2, 33, or 66, with infinitely many rational points.

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@article{arxiv.1402.4583,
  title  = {Constructions of diagonal quartic and sextic surfaces with infinitely many rational points},
  author = {Andrew Bremner and Ajai Choudhry and Maciej Ulas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.4583},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

revised version will appear in International Journal of Number Theory

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