English

Explicit arithmetic intersection theory and computation of N\'eron-Tate heights

Number Theory 2019-04-04 v2

Abstract

We describe a general algorithm for computing intersection pairings on arithmetic surfaces. We have implemented our algorithm for curves over Q\mathbb Q, and we show how to use it to compute regulators for a number of Jacobians of smooth plane quartics, and to numerically verify the conjecture of Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer for the Jacobian of the split Cartan curve of level 13, up to squares.

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@article{arxiv.1809.06791,
  title  = {Explicit arithmetic intersection theory and computation of N\'eron-Tate heights},
  author = {Raymond van Bommel and David Holmes and J. Steffen Müller},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.06791},
  year   = {2019}
}
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