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Diophantine equations, rational points, abelian varieties, Arakelov theory, Iwasawa theory.

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Which curves have infinitely many rational points

Dear Tim: How right you are to worry about computing the Jacobian of a genus one curve! Years ago, in the midst of many discussions with Bill McCallum, Alex Perlis, Nick Shepherd-Barron, and John T …
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Why should I believe the Mordell Conjecture?

Since summer is here, I will bore people a bit with my own ahistorical view of Mordell. The main point is that Serge Lang's strategy, mentioned by several people, is essentially correct. Nevertheless …
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What is a Frobenioid?

Since there will be a long digression in a moment, let me start by reassuring you that my intention really is to ask the question in the title. Recently, there has been a flurry of new discussion sur …
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What is an étale theta function?

Update (27 December, 2015): A number of corrections have been made in the two linked PDF documents below, Update (15 December, 2015): I note that Brian Conrad has written a thoughtful summary avail …
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What is an étale theta function?

Let me start out by urging you to take seriously that whatever I write about the papers surrounding IUTT really are questions. If you would like to use it as a guide to the mathematics in any way, the …
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Why certain diophantine equations are interesting (and others are not) ?

Added 22, October: While reflecting on this question and the subsequent discussion, I fell again into a bit of a sermonizing mood. I hope I will be forgiven for inserting two words of caution. The …
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