Mordell-Weil Generators for Cubic Surfaces
Salle WLet C be a smooth plane cubic curve over the rationals. TheMordell--Weil Theorem can be restated as follows: there is a finitesubset B of rational points such that all rational points can beobtained from this subset by successive tangent and secantconstructions. It is conjectured that a minimal such B can bearbitrarily large