The average number of integral points on elliptic curves is bounded
Abstract
We prove that, when elliptic curves are ordered by height, the average number of integral points is bounded, and in fact is less than (and at most on the minimalist conjecture). By "" we mean the integral points on the corresponding quasiminimal Weierstrass model with which one computes the na\"{\i}ve height. The methods combine ideas from work of Silverman, Helfgott, and Helfgott-Venkatesh with work of Bhargava-Shankar and a careful analysis of local heights for "most" elliptic curves. The same methods work to bound integral points on average over the families , , and .
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@article{arxiv.1412.1047,
title = {The average number of integral points on elliptic curves is bounded},
author = {Levent Alpoge},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.1047},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
45 pages, Mathematica file included. [v2: fixed a misattribution and a minus sign, added some citations. v3: improved result for rank 1 curves, fixed an error in the optimization, added some citations.]