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Curves over global fields violating the Hasse Principle

Number Theory 2009-05-22 v1 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

In response to a question of B. Poonen, we exhibit for each global field k an algebraic curve over k which violates the Hasse Principle. In fact we can find such examples among Atkin-Lehner twists of certain elliptic modular curves and -- in positive characteristic -- Drinfeld modular curves. Our main tool is a refinement of the "Twist Anti-Hasse Principle" (TAHP). We also use TAHP to construct further Hasse Principle violations, for instance among curves over any number field of any given genus g which is at least 2.

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@article{arxiv.0905.3459,
  title  = {Curves over global fields violating the Hasse Principle},
  author = {Pete L. Clark},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0905.3459},
  year   = {2009}
}

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16 pages; comments welcome

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