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This is a list of Wikipedia articles about curves used in different fields: ... Rational curves are subdivided according to the degree of the polynomial. Degree 1
In mathematics, the rational normal curve is a smooth, rational curve C of degree n in projective n-space P n. It is a simple example of a projective variety; formally, it is the Veronese variety when the domain is the projective line. For n = 2 it is the plane conic Z 0 Z 2 = Z 2 1, and for n = 3 it is the twisted cubic.
One of the easiest examples to check of a Calabi-Yau manifold is given by the Fermat quintic threefold, which is defined by the vanishing locus of the polynomial = + + + + Computing the partial derivatives of gives the four polynomials = = = = = Since the only points where they vanish is given by the coordinate axes in , the vanishing locus is empty since [::::] is not a point in .
Faltings's theorem is a result in arithmetic geometry, according to which a curve of genus greater than 1 over the field of rational numbers has only finitely many rational points. This was conjectured in 1922 by Louis Mordell, [1] and known as the Mordell conjecture until its 1983 proof by Gerd Faltings. [2]
In mathematics, the rank of an elliptic curve is the rational Mordell–Weil rank of an elliptic curve defined over the field of rational numbers or more generally a number field K. Mordell's theorem (generalized to arbitrary number fields by André Weil ) says the group of rational points on an elliptic curve has a finite basis .
A birational map from X to Y is a rational map f : X ⇢ Y such that there is a rational map Y ⇢ X inverse to f.A birational map induces an isomorphism from a nonempty open subset of X to a nonempty open subset of Y, and vice versa: an isomorphism between nonempty open subsets of X, Y by definition gives a birational map f : X ⇢ Y.
The proof of Lüroth's theorem can be derived easily from the theory of rational curves, using the geometric genus. [2] This method is non-elementary, but several short proofs using only the basics of field theory have long been known, mainly using the concept of transcendence degree. [3]
The modularity of an elliptic curve E of conductor N can be expressed also by saying that there is a non-constant rational map defined over ℚ, from the modular curve X 0 (N) to E. In particular, the points of E can be parametrized by modular functions. For example, a modular parametrization of the curve y 2 − y = x 3 − x is given by [18]