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A positive proportion of locally soluble quartic Thue equations are globally insoluble

Part of: Diophantine equations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2021

SHABNAM AKHTARI
SHABNAM AKHTARI*
Affiliation:
Fenton Hall, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1222 U.S.A e-mail: akhtari@uoregon.edu
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Abstract

For any fixed nonzero integer h, we show that a positive proportion of integral binary quartic forms F do locally everywhere represent h, but do not globally represent h. We order classes of integral binary quartic forms by the two generators of their ring of ${\rm GL}_{2}({\mathbb Z})$-invariants, classically denoted by I and J.

MSC classification

Primary: 11D25: Cubic and quartic equations 11D45: Counting solutions of Diophantine equations

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 173 , Issue 2 , September 2022 , pp. 333 - 348
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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Cambridge Philosophical Society

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