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Almost all quadratic twists of an elliptic curve have no integral points

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arxiv 2401.04375 v1 pith:GQNV3YXV submitted 2024-01-09 math.NT

Almost all quadratic twists of an elliptic curve have no integral points

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For a given elliptic curve E in short Weierstrass form, we show that almost all quadratic twists E_D have no integral points, as D ranges over square-free integers ordered by size. Our result is conditional on a weak form of the Hall-Lang conjecture in the case that E has partial 2-torsion. The proof uses a correspondence of Mordell and the reduction theory of binary quartic forms in order to transfer the problem to counting rational points of bounded height on a certain singular cubic surface, together with extensive use of cancellation in character sum estimates, drawn from Heath-Brown's analysis of Selmer group statistics for the congruent number curve.

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