The proportion of genus one curves over $\mathbb{Q}$ defined by a binary quartic that everywhere locally have a point
Number Theory
2020-08-03 v3
Abstract
We consider the proportion of genus one curves over of the form where is a binary quartic form (or more generally of the form where also is a binary quadratic form) that have points everywhere locally. We show that the proportion of these curves that are locally soluble, computed as a product of local densities, is approximately 75.96%. We prove that the local density at a prime is given by a fixed degree- rational function of for all odd (and for the generalised equation, the same rational function gives the local density at every prime). An additional analysis is carried out to estimate rigorously the local density at the real place.
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@article{arxiv.2004.12085,
title = {The proportion of genus one curves over $\mathbb{Q}$ defined by a binary quartic that everywhere locally have a point},
author = {Manjul Bhargava and John Cremona and Tom Fisher},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.12085},
year = {2020}
}
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19 pages. To appear in IJNT