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The affine Chabauty method

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Speaker: 
Marius Leonhardt
Affiliation: 
Universität Heidelberg
Date: 
Wed, 25/06/2025 - 14:30 - 15:30
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall
Parent event: 
Number theory lunch seminar

Given a hyperbolic curve $Y$ defined over the integers and a finite set of primes $S$, the set of $S$-integral points $Y(\mathbb{Z}_S)$ is finite by theorems of Siegel, Mahler, and Faltings. Determining this set in practice is a difficult problem for which no general method is known. In this talk I report on joint work in progress with Martin Lüdtke in which we develop a Chabauty--Coleman method for finding $S$-integral points on affine curves. We achieve this by bounding the image of $Y(\mathbb{Z}_S)$ in the Mordell--Weil group of the generalised Jacobian using arithmetic intersection theory on a regular model.

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