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Rings and Modules Seminar
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© 2005 Thomas G. Kucera

R. Padmanabhan
padman@cc.umanitoba.ca

Department of Mathematics
University of Manitoba

Thursday, March 31, 2005

Taxicab Numbers "Hall of Fame"
Abstract:

In this talk we discuss the group structure E(Q) of some of the famous taxicab curves (defined by the equation x^3 + y^3 = Az^3). In particular, the integer points corresponding to the distinct solutions of the equation (i.e. expressing A as sum of two cubes) are independent in all the known examples and thus this may throw light on the conjectured unboundedness of the Mordell-Weil rank. i


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