From: [email protected]Reply-To: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Neron Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 15:46:24 -0400 Basically, Noam and I have been looking at ranks in the family x^3 + y^3 = k. I used Neron to eliminate the last few cases to prove that 21691 and 489489 are minimal for ranks 4 and 5, respectively. Perhaps more interestingly, computations on Neron have also led to some of the first examples of rank 8 in this family, and the first example of a rank 9 curve. The rank 9 example is particularly interesting because the 3-isogenous curve xy(x+y) = k has rational 3-torsion, making this the first known example of an elliptic curve over Q with rational 3-torsion and rank at least 9. Nick