Real conic without real rational points
ID: real-conic-without-real-rational-points
This smooth projective plane curve has no real rational points: a sum of three real squares is zero only when all three coordinates vanish, which is forbidden in projective space. It is therefore not isomorphic over to the projective line, which has rational points. Over it becomes a nonsingular conic isomorphic to a projective line. Thus the ground field changes whether a geometric genus-zero curve admits a projective-line parametrization.
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