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The Hessian criterion for flexes of a plane cubic applied to the defining polynomial givesConsequently the inflection points of a plane cubic on this curve are exactly its intersections with the three coordinate lines. Choose $r\in \overline{\mathbb{Q}}$ with $r^3=d$, and a primitive cube root of unity $\zeta$. The nine distinct flexes of a diagonal cubic areWith the chosen flex as identity, these points are precisely $E_d[3]$. A tangent cutting the Weil divisor $3P$ gives $3(P-O)=0$; conversely $3(P-O)=0$ makes the hyperplane Weil divisor equivalent to $3P$, which supplies a tangent with triple contact. This is the three-torsion points are flexes of a plane cubic correspondence.

On $Z=0$ only $O$ is rational, since the other cube roots of unity are not rational. On each other coordinate line a rational point exists exactly when $d$ is a rational cube, and then exactly one does. ThereforeIn particular the rational torsion subgroup cannot contain two independent points of order $3$.

One can also determine the whole rational torsion of a diagonal cubic. First it is killed by $6$. To see this, use the Weierstrass equation of an elliptic curve from (iii). At primes $\ell \equiv 2(\mathrm{mod}3)$ outside the finite set containing $2,3$ and the prime divisors of the numerator and denominator of $d$, the cube map permutes ${\mathbb{F}}_{\ell }$, sowhere the quadratic character is extended by $\chi (0)=0$, and the character sum vanishes after substituting $t=x^3-432d^2$. Reduction of torsion points on an elliptic curve injects the prime-to-$\ell$ part of rational torsion into this finite group. This injection follows because multiplication by an integer prime to $\ell$ is invertible on the formal group of an elliptic curve, and hence its reduction kernel has no such torsion.

For any prime $q>3$, choose a good $\ell \equiv 2(\mathrm{mod}3)$ with $\ell \equiv 1(\mathrm{mod}q)$; the Dirichlet theorem on primes in arithmetic progressions and the Chinese remainder theorem supply such primes outside the finite bad set. Then $q\nmid \ell +1$, excluding $q$-torsion. Similarly good $\ell \equiv 5(\mathrm{mod}12)$ exclude order $4$, and good $\ell \equiv 11(\mathrm{mod}18)$ exclude order $9$. Thus every rational torsion point has order dividing $6$.

The inversion formula in (i) shows that the only possible nonidentity rational point of order $2$ has $X=Y$ and $Z\ne 0$. It exists precisely when $(X/Z{)}^3=-d/2$, that is, when $d/2$ is a rational cube. There is at most one such point. This condition and $d$ being a cube cannot hold together, since $2$ is not a rational cube. Combining it with the three-torsion calculation gives the full answer:

There are infinitely many rational pairs $(u,v)$ with $u^3+v^3=7$. The corresponding Weierstrass equation of an elliptic curve is $y^2=x^3-21168$, and $(u,v)=(2,-1)$ maps to $P=(84,756)$. The primes $5$ and $11$ are good, with point counts $6$ and $12$ because cubing is bijective in their residue fields. Reduction of torsion points on an elliptic curve bounds rational torsion by order dividing $6$. The flexes of a diagonal cubic exclude three-torsion for $d=-7$, while $d/2=-7/2$ is not a cube and hence excludes two-torsion. Thus $P$ has infinite order.

All nonzero multiples of $P$ map to distinct rational affine pairs, since the only rational point at infinity of the diagonal cubic is its identity. The inverse map is $u=(y+252)/(6x)$ and $v=(252-y)/(6x)$.

For $d\in {\mathbb{Q}}^{\times }$ the rational torsion subgroup of $X^3+Y^3+d{Z}^3=0$ is cyclic of order $3$ if $d$ is a cube, cyclic of order $2$ if $d/2$ is a cube, and trivial otherwise.

To bound torsion, use the Weierstrass equation of an elliptic curve $y^2=x^3-432d^2$. At every good prime $\ell \equiv 2(\mathrm{mod}3)$, cubing is a bijection on ${\mathbb{F}}_{\ell }$, so the number of points is $\ell +1$. Reduction injects the prime-to-$\ell$ torsion, since multiplication by an integer prime to $\ell$ is invertible in the formal group of an elliptic curve. For any prime $q>3$, the Dirichlet theorem on primes in arithmetic progressions supplies a good $\ell \equiv 2(\mathrm{mod}3)$, $\ell \equiv 1(\mathrm{mod}q)$, excluding $q$-torsion. Good primes $\ell \equiv 5(\mathrm{mod}12)$ exclude order $4$, and good primes $\ell \equiv 11(\mathrm{mod}18)$ exclude order $9$. Thus every rational torsion point is killed by $6$.

The flexes of a diagonal cubic give rational three-torsion exactly when $d$ is a cube, and then it has order $3$. Rational two-torsion requires $x^3=432d^2$, whose sole possible rational root exists exactly when $d/2$ is a cube. This equivalence follows by comparing prime valuations modulo $3$, including the valuation at $2$. The two conditions cannot hold together because $2$ is not a rational cube. The asserted classification follows.