Oliver Club

Wei HoUniversity of Michigan
Integral points on elliptic curves

Thursday, May 2, 2019 - 4:00pm
Malott 532

Elliptic curves are fundamental and well-studied objects in arithmetic geometry. However, much is still not known about many basic properties, such as the number of rational points on a "random" elliptic curve. We will discuss some conjectures and theorems about this "arithmetic statistics" problem, and then show how they can be applied to answer a related question about the number of integral points on elliptic curves over $Q$. In particular, we show that the second moment (and the average) for the number of integral points on elliptic curves over $Q$ is bounded (joint work with Levent Alpoge).

Refreshments will be served at 3:30 PM.