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arxiv: 1412.1047 · v3 · pith:KTR5ZKE5new · submitted 2014-12-02 · 🧮 math.NT · math.AG

The average number of integral points on elliptic curves is bounded

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We prove that, when elliptic curves $E/\mathbb{Q}$ are ordered by height, the average number of integral points $\#|E(\mathbb{Z})|$ is bounded, and in fact is less than $66$ (and at most $\frac{8}{9}$ on the minimalist conjecture). By "$E(\mathbb{Z})$" we mean the integral points on the corresponding quasiminimal Weierstrass model $E_{A,B}: y^2 = x^3 + Ax + B$ with which one computes the na\"{\i}ve height. The methods combine ideas from work of Silverman, Helfgott, and Helfgott-Venkatesh with work of Bhargava-Shankar and a careful analysis of local heights for "most" elliptic curves. The same methods work to bound integral points on average over the families $y^2 = x^3 + B$, $y^2 = x^3 + Ax$, and $y^2 = x^3 - D^2 x$.

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