The genus-one Hasse principle violation conjecture

About 17 years old · traced to

Let kk be a global field. A genus one curve over kk is a smooth projective curve of genus one, and an elliptic curve EE over kk is a genus one curve with a specified kk-rational point. Write  \fontencodingOT2\fontfamilywncyr\fontseriesm\fontshapen \selectfontSh(k,E){\text{% {\fontencoding{OT2}\fontfamily{wncyr}\fontseries{m}\fontshape{n}% \selectfont Sh}}}(k,E) for the Shafarevich–Tate group of EE. A curve violates the Hasse Principle if it has points over every completion of kk but no kk-rational point.

Genus-one Hasse principle violation conjecture. For every global field kk, there exists a genus one curve C/kC_{/k} which violates the Hasse Principle. Equivalently, there exists an elliptic curve E/kE_{/k} with  \fontencodingOT2\fontfamilywncyr\fontseriesm\fontshapen \selectfontSh(k,E)≠0{\text{% {\fontencoding{OT2}\fontfamily{wncyr}\fontseries{m}\fontshape{n}% \selectfont Sh}}}(k,E) \neq 0.

The conjecture asks whether every global field admits a locally soluble but globally insoluble genus one curve. The supplied text gives no resolution, so its status remains open.

References

Primary source

Pete L. Clark, “Curves over global fields violating the Hasse Principle”, arXiv:0905.3459 (2009).

Progress summary

Never refreshed

Nothing recorded yet. Refresh searches the literature and the public web for attempts on this problem, and writes the first summary here.

Solutions 0

No solutions have been posted yet.