Mathematics – Number Theory
Scientific paper
2007-03-24
Mathematics
Number Theory
63 pages, a proposition has been added (proposition 2.8)
Scientific paper
This article deals with a quantitative aspect of Hilbert's seventeenth problem: producing a collection of real polynomials in two variables of degree 8 in one variable which are positive but are not a sum of three squares of rational fractions. As explained by Huisman and Mahe, a given monic squarefree positive polynomial in two variables x and y of degree in y divisible by 4 is a sum of three squares of rational fractions if and only if the jabobian variety of some hyperelliptic curve (associated to P) has an "antineutral" point. Using this criterium, we follow a method developped by Cassels, Ellison and Pfister to solve our problem : at first we show the Mordell-Weil rank of the jacobian variety J associated to some polynomial is zero (this step is done by doing a 2-descent), and then we check that the jacobian variety J has no antineutral torsion point.
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