Samir Siksek  

Samir Siksek

Professor and EPSRC Leadership Fellow at the Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick.

Email: firstname dot lastname at gmail.com

Postal Address:
Mathematics Institute
University of Warwick
Coventry
CV4 7AL
United Kingdom



Teaching:

Events I'm involved in organizing:

Miscellaneous

Research Area:

Explicit arithmetic geometry, arithmetic of curves and surfaces, Diophantine equations (and the generalized Fermat equation in particular).

Selected Publications:  (these may differ from final versions)

  1. On the number of Mordell-Weil generators for cubic surfaces, Journal of Number Theory 132 (2012), 2610-2629.   on arXiv
  2. Explicit Chabauty over number fields. to appear in Algebra & Number Theory.   on arXiv
  3. (with Stoll) Partial descent on hyperelliptic curves and the generalized Fermat equation x^3+y^4+z^5=0, Bulletin of the LMS 44 (2012), 151-166.   on arXiv
  4. (with Deajim) On the Q-linear independence of the sums irrat , Journal of Number Theory 131 (2011), 745-749.
  5. (with Stoll) On a problem of Hajdu and Tengely, pages 316--330 of Algorithmic Number Theory, Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium, Nancy, France, July 19--23, 2010, editors Guillaume Hanrot, François Morain and Emmanuel Thomé, LNCS 6197, Springer-Verlag.   on arXiv
  6. (with Luca) Factorials expressible as sums of at most three Fibonacci numbers, Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society 53 (2010), no. 3, 679-729.   pdf
  7. (with Abu Muriefah, Luca and Tengely) On the Diophantine equation x^2+C=2y^n, International Journal of Number Theory 5 (2009), 1117-1128.   pdf
  8. (with Chen) Perfect powers expressible as sums of two cubes, Journal of Algebra 322 (2009), 638-656.   pdf
  9. Chabauty for Symmetric Powers of Curves, Algebra & Number Theory 3 (2009), No. 2, 209-236.   pdf
  10. (with Bugeaud and Reutenauer) A Sturmian sequence related to the uniqueness conjecture for Markoff numbers, Theoretical Computer Science 410 (2009), 2864-2869.
  11. Diophantine equations after Fermat's Last Theorem, Journal de Théorie des Nombres de Bordeaux 21 (2009), no. 2, 425--436.  pdf
  12. (with Bugeaud, Mignotte, Stoll, Tengely) Integral Points on Hyperelliptic Curves, Algebra & Number Theory 2 (2008), No. 8, 859-885.   on arXiv programs
  13. (with Bugeaud, Luca and Mignotte) Almost powers in the Lucas sequences, Journal de Théorie des Nombres de Bordeaux 20 (2008), 555--600.   pdf
  14. (with Martin Bright) Functions, Reciprocity and the Obstruction to Divisors on Curves, Journal of the LMS 77 (2008), 789-807.   pdf
  15. (with Bugeaud and Mignotte) A multi-Frey approach to some multi-parameter families of Diophantine equations, Canadian Journal of Mathematics 60 (2008), 491-519.  pdf
  16. (with Bugeaud, Luca and Mignotte) Fibonacci Numbers at most one away from a perfect power, Elemente der Mathematik 63 (2008), no. 2, 65-75.  pdf  dvi
  17. (with Bugeaud, Luca and Mignotte) Perfect powers from products of terms in Lucas sequences, Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik, 611 (2007), 109-129.  dvi  pdf
  18. (with Bugeaud and Mignotte) Classical and modular approaches to exponential Diophantine equations II: The Lebesgue-Nagell equation, Compositio Mathematica 142 (2006), 31-62.  pdf
  19. (with Bugeaud and Mignotte) Classical and modular approaches to exponential Diophantine equations I. Fibonacci and Lucas perfect powers, Annals of Mathematics 163 (2006), 969-1018.  dvi  pdf
  20. (with Cremona and Prickett) Height difference bounds for elliptic curves over number fields, Journal of Number Theory 116 (2006), 42-68.  dvi  pdf
  21. (with Cremona) Computing a Lower Bound for the Canonical Height on Elliptic Curves over Q, in Algorithmic Number Theory, 7th International Symposium, ANTS-VII, pages 275-286, Springer Verlag, LNCS 4076, July 2006  pdf
  22. (with Bugeaud, Luca and Mignotte) On perfect powers in Lucas sequences, International Journal of Number Theory 1 (2005), 309-332.  dvi  pdf
  23. (with Bugeaud, Luca and Mignotte) On Fibonacci numbers with few prime divisors, Proceedings of the Japan Academy 81, Ser. A, No. 2 (2005).  dvi  pdf
  24. On standardized models for elliptic curves, Math. Comp. 74 (2005), 949-951.  dvi
  25. The modular approach to Diophantine equations, notes for lectures given at the Institut Henri Poincaré (October 2004).  pdf
  26. On the Brauer-Manin obstruction for curves with split Jacobian, Journal de Théorie des Nombres de Bordeaux 16 (2004), 773-777.  dvi  pdf
  27. (with Bugeaud and Mignotte) Sur les nombres de Fibonacci de la forme $q^k y^p$ , C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Ser. I 339 (2004), 327-330.  pdf
  28. (with El-Sedy) On points of non-differentiability of convex functions, Applied Mathematics and Computation 148 (2004), 725-728.
  29. (with Cremona) On the Diophantine equation $x^2+7=y^m$ , Acta Arithmetica 109.2 (2003), 143-149.  dvi  pdf
  30. (with Skorobogatov) On a Shimura curve that is a counterexample to the Hasse principle, Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society 35 (2003), 143-149.  pdf
  31. On the Diophantine equation $x^2=y^p+2^k z^p$, Journal de Théorie des Nombres de Bordeaux 15 (2003), 839-846.  dvi  pdf
  32. (with El-Sedy) On the irrationality of certain rapidly convergent series, International Mathematical Journal 3 (2003), 1193-1195.
  33. Descent of Picard groups using functions on curves, Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society 66 (2002), 119-124.  dvi  pdf
  34. Sieving for rational points on hyperelliptic curves, Mathematics of Computation 70 (2001), 1661-1674.  dvi
  35. (with El-Sedy) On happy numbers, Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics 30 (2000), 565-570.  dvi  pdf
  36. 4-descent, pages 418-422, appendix A to ``Beyond the Manin obstruction'' by A. N. Skorobogatov, Inventiones Mathematicae 135 (1999), 399-424.
  37. The height pairing on an elliptic curve with complex multiplication, Arab Journal of Mathematical Sciences 5 (1999), 43-48.  dvi  pdf
  38. (with N. Smart) A fast Diffie-Hellman protocol in genus 2, Journal of Cryptology 12 (1999), 67-73.
  39. (with N. Smart) On the complexity of computing the 2-Selmer group of an elliptic curve, Glasgow Mathematical Journal 39 (1997), 251-258.
  40. (with J. Merriman and N. Smart) Explicit 4-descents on an elliptic curve, Acta Arithmetica LXXVII.4 (1996), 358-404.  dvi  pdf
  41. Infinite descent on elliptic curves, Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics 25 (1995), 1501-1538.  dvi  pdf
  42. Descents on curves of genus 1, PhD thesis, University of Exeter, 1995.   dvi   pdf

Scans of some recent talks:

  1. Giving Baker's Theory a modular helping hand, Dagstuhl, Germany, May 2004. pdf
  2. A multi-exponential diophantine spree, Institute Henri Poincare, Paris, December 2004. pdf
  3. Beyond Fermat's Last Theorem, University of Warwick, January 2005. pdf
  4. Functions, reciprocity and the obstruction to divisors on curves, Bremen and Oberwolfach, July 2005. pdf
  5. The Lebesgue-Nagell-Ramanujan equation, University of Warwick, 24 August 2005. pdf
  6. Computing a lower bound for the canonical height on elliptic curves, ANTS VII conference, Berlin, 24 July 2006. pdf
  7. Chabauty for Symmetric Powers on Curves Banff, 7 February 2007. pdf
  8. Chabauty for Symmetric Powers on Curves (a version of the above talk aimed at those new to Chabauty) Rome, 13 April 2007. pdf
  9. Integral Points on Curves of Higher Genus Bordeaux, 15 October 2007. pdf
  10. Integral Points on Curves of Higher Genus (a more up-to-date version) MAGIC-Muggle Number Theory Seminar, 7 November 2008. pdf
  11. Chabauty over Number Fields Leiden, 20 April 2009. pdf
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