Transactions of the American Mathematical Society

Author(s): Pavlos Tzermias
Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 356 (2004), 939-951.
MSC (2000): Primary 11G30, 14H25; Secondary 11G10, 14G05
Posted: October 8, 2003
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Abstract: We investigate low-degree points on the Fermat curve of degree 13, the Snyder quintic curve and the Klein quartic curve. We compute all quadratic points on these curves and use Coleman's effective Chabauty method to obtain bounds for the number of cubic points on each of the former two curves.

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