The rank-zero fibre conjecture for non-isotrivial elliptic surfaces

Let π:XP1\pi:X\to \mathbb{P}^1 be a non-isotrivial elliptic surface defined over Q\mathbb{Q}, and let MW(X,π)\mathrm{MW}(X,\pi) be its group of sections defined over Q\mathbb{Q}. Assume

rkMW(X,π)=0.\operatorname{rk}\mathrm{MW}(X,\pi)=0.

Rank-zero fibre conjecture. There are infinitely many bP1(Q)b\in\mathbb{P}^1(\mathbb{Q}) such that

rkXb(Q)=0;\operatorname{rk}X_b(\mathbb{Q})=0;

that is, N(X,π)\mathscr{N}(X,\pi) is infinite.

This is a special case of the preceding conjecture and remains open; the paper states that no example of a non-isotrivial elliptic surface with infinite N(X,π)\mathscr{N}(X,\pi) is known.

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Jerson Caro and Hector Pasten, “On the fibres of an elliptic surface where the rank does not jump”, arXiv:2210.14181 (2022).

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