Poonen's finite-place obstruction conjecture for curves
Poonen's finite-place obstruction conjecture for curves
Let be a smooth projective geometrically connected curve of genus at least over a number field , with . Assume that has a rational divisor class of degree , and let be its Jacobian; the divisor class induces an embedding
For a finite place of good reduction, write for the residue field. Poonen's finite-place obstruction conjecture. There is a finite set of finite places of good reduction for such that
This stronger conjectural form is motivated by heuristic arguments of Poonen and would give a finite collection of reductions witnessing the absence of a rational point. The paper reports computational evidence for genus- curves over , but the assertion remains open in general.
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Primary source
Michael Stoll, “Finite descent obstructions and rational points on curves”, arXiv:math/0606465 (2007).
Additional references
2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2005–2006). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:math/0507329.
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