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Irrational points on random hyperelliptic curves

Number Theory 2019-08-27 v3

Abstract

We consider genus gg hyperelliptic curves over Q\mathbb{Q} with a rational Weierstrass point, ordered by height. If d<gd < g is odd, we prove, under an assumption, that there exists BdB_d such that a positive proportion of these curves have at most BdB_d points of degree dd. If d<gd < g is even, we conditionally bound degree dd points not pulled back from points of degree d/2d/2 on the projective line. Furthermore, we show one may take B2=24B_2=24 and B_3=114$. Our proofs proceed by refining recent work of Park, which applied tropical geometry to symmetric power Chabauty, and then applying results of Bhargava and Gross on average ranks of Jacobians of hyperelliptic curves.

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@article{arxiv.1709.02041,
  title  = {Irrational points on random hyperelliptic curves},
  author = {Joseph Gunther and Jackson S. Morrow},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.02041},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

21 pages. Significantly updated to account for technical hypotheses needed in previous results from the literature; some of our theorems are now conditional

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