Bhargava's conjecture on the lowest odd-degree point of hyperelliptic curves

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Let gg be the genus of a hyperelliptic curve. Consider locally soluble hyperelliptic curves that have points of odd degree. Bhargava's conjecture. As the family is ordered in the sense of the paper, 100%100\% of these curves have an odd-degree point of lowest degree exactly gg or g+1g+1, whichever of these two integers is odd. This predicts the smallest odd degree represented by such a curve in the large-genus limit.

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Lea Beneish and Andrew Granville, “Degrees of points on irreducible hypersurfaces”, arXiv:2510.16649 (2025).

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