On the proportion of locally soluble superelliptic curves
Number Theory
2025-09-17 v2
Abstract
We investigate the proportion of superelliptic curves that have a point for every place of . We show that this proportion is positive and given by the product of local densities, we provide lower bounds for this proportion in general, and for superelliptic curves of the form for an integral binary form of degree 6, we determine this proportion to be 96.94%. More precisely, we give explicit rational functions in for the proportion of such curves over having a -point.
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@article{arxiv.2111.04697,
title = {On the proportion of locally soluble superelliptic curves},
author = {Lea Beneish and Christopher Keyes},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.04697},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
64 pages. Accepted for publication in Finite Fields and Their Applications