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Why is this "the first elliptic curve in nature"?
The LMFDB describes the elliptic curve 11a3 (or 11.a3) as "The first elliptic curve in nature". It has minimal Weierstraß equation
$$
y^2 + y = x^3 - x^2.
$$
My guess is that there is some ...
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Why do the $2$-Selmer ranks of $y^2 = x^3 + p^3 $ and $y^2 = x^3 - p^3 $ agree?
I was playing around with sage, when I found that the Mordell-Weil ranks (over $\mathbb{Q}$) of the elliptic curves $y^2=x^3+p^3$ and $y^2=x^3-p^3 $ almost always agree, for $p$ prime. The first few ...
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Integral points on a particular family of curves
This is a follow-up to this question (and comments thereon). Namely, it follows from Felipe Voloch's comment that for any $n>2$ there is a finite set of integral $(x, y),$ such that
$$
\prod_{i=1}^...
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Existence of Pillai equations with Catalan type solutions?
In Catalan's conjecture we have $$x^m-y^n=1$$ having solution $(3,2,1,1)$ and $(3,2,2,3)$.
Call $$ax^m-by^n=k$$ to be Pillai Diophantine equation.
Is it true no Pillai Diophantine equation exists ...
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A specific Diophantine equation related to the congruent number question
Let $n$ be an odd square free natural number. J.B. Tunnel in his 1983 paper, showed that a number $n$ is congruent, if and only if the number of triples of integers satisfying $2x^2+y^2+8z^2=n$ is ...
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Is there a method to check if two sections of an elliptic surface are dependent over the endomorphism ring or not?
Let $E\!: y^2 = x^3 + a(t)x + b(t)$ be an elliptic curve over the function field $\mathbb{F}_{q}(t)$ over a finite field $\mathbb{F}_{q}$ of characteristic $5$ or greater. For simplicity, let $E$ be ...
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On Mordell equation $y^2=x^3+k$ [closed]
Have the Mordell equation $y^2=x^3+k$ solved for all integer $k$ or not?
Please Could you tell me about a good review papers about such equation.
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