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Rational points on hyperelliptic curves having a marked non-Weierstrass point

Part of: Arithmetic algebraic geometry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 October 2017

Arul Shankar  and
Xiaoheng Wang
Arul Shankar
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada email arul.shnkr@gmail.com
Xiaoheng Wang
Affiliation:
Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada email x46wang@uwaterloo.ca
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Abstract

In this paper, we consider the family of hyperelliptic curves over $\mathbb{Q}$ having a fixed genus $n$ and a marked rational non-Weierstrass point. We show that when $n\geqslant 9$, a positive proportion of these curves have exactly two rational points, and that this proportion tends to one as $n$ tends to infinity. We study rational points on these curves by first obtaining results on the 2-Selmer groups of their Jacobians. In this direction, we prove that the average size of the 2-Selmer groups of the Jacobians of curves in our family is bounded above by 6, which implies a bound of $5/2$ on the average rank of these Jacobians. Our results are natural extensions of Poonen and Stoll [Most odd degree hyperelliptic curves have only one rational point, Ann. of Math. (2) 180 (2014), 1137–1166] and Bhargava and Gross [The average size of the 2-Selmer group of Jacobians of hyperelliptic curves having a rational Weierstrass point, in Automorphic representations and$L$-functions, Tata Inst. Fundam. Res. Stud. Math., vol. 22 (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, 2013), 23–91], where the analogous results are proved for the family of hyperelliptic curves with a marked rational Weierstrass point.

Keywords

rational points on curveshyperelliptic curvesranks of abelian varietiesSelmer groups

MSC classification

Primary: 11G30: Curves of arbitrary genus or genus $ne 1$ over global fields
Type
Research Article
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Compositio Mathematica , Volume 154 , Issue 1 , January 2018 , pp. 188 - 222
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© The Authors 2017 

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