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On Shafarevich-Tate groups and the arithmetic of Fermat Curves

Number Theory 2007-05-23 v1 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

We extend the results of the first author on nontrivial elements in the Shafarevich-Tate group of the jacobian of a quotient of a Fermat curve of prime degree, and use the methods of the second author to derive a result bounding the quadratic points on the Fermat curve of degree 19.

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@article{arxiv.math/0210483,
  title  = {On Shafarevich-Tate groups and the arithmetic of Fermat Curves},
  author = {William G. McCallum and Pavlos Tzermias},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0210483},
  year   = {2007}
}

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