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Then
y 2 + a 1 xy + a 3 y = x 3 + a 2 x 2 + a 4 x + a 6 .
Theinverse tra n sform ation is
u = 2 q ( x + c ) ( d 2 / 2 q )
y
q + u ( ux d )
2 q
,
v =
.
The point ( u, v )=(0 ,q ) corresponds tothe point ( x, y )= and ( u, v )=
(0 ,
q ) corresponds to ( x, y )=(
a 2 ,a 1 a 2
a 3 ) .
PROOF Most of the proof is a “straightforward” calculation that we omit.
For the image of the point (0 , −q ), see [28].
Example 2.2
Consider the equation
v 2 = u 4 +1 .
(2.7)
Then a =1, b = c = d =0,and q =1. If
x = 2( v +1)
u 2
y = 4( v +1)
u 3
,
,
then we obtain the elliptic curve E given by
y 2 = x 3
4 x.
The inverse transformation is
1+(2 x 3 /y 2 ) .
u =2 x/y,
v =
The point ( u, v )=(0 , 1) corresponds to
on E ,and( u, v )=(0 ,
1) corre-
sponds to (0 , 0). We will show in Chapter 8 that
E ( Q )=
{∞
, (0 , 0) , (2 , 0) , (
2 , 0)
}
.
These correspond to ( u, v )=(0 , 1) , (0 ,
1), and points at infinity. Therefore,
the only finite rational points on the quartic curve are ( u, v )=(0 ,
±
1). It is
easy to deduce from this that the only integer solutions to
a 4 + b 4 = c 2
satisfy ab = 0. This yields Fermat's Last Theorem for exponent 4. We will
discuss this in more detail in Chapter 8.
It is worth considering briefly the situation at infinity in u, v .Ifwemake
the equation (2.7) homogeneous, we obtain
F ( u, v, w )= v 2 w 2
− u 4
− w 4 =0 .
 
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