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Some cubic surfaces with no rational points

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Andrew Bremner
Andrew Bremner
Affiliation:
Emmanuel College, Cambridge
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Selmer(1) conjectured that the Hasse principle holds for all cubic surfaces of the type

that is, such a surface has a rational point whenever it has points defined over every p-adic field Qp; and he proved this assertion in the case that ab = cd.

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 84 , Issue 2 , September 1978 , pp. 219 - 223
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1978

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