2019/07/03 by Daniel Loughran, Cecília Salgado, Loughran, Daniel +1 · 3 citations
Mathematics · Social Sciences · #Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory #Analytic Number Theory Research #Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1907.01987
Given an elliptic surface over a number field, we study the collection of fibres whose Mordell-Weil rank is greater than the generic rank. Under suitable assumptions, we show that this collection is not thin. Our results apply to quadratic twist families and del Pezzo surfaces of degree 1.