2-descent for Bloch--Kato Selmer groups and rational points on hyperelliptic curves I

This paper introduces explicit Galois cohomological methods for determining the ranks of Bloch–Kato Selmer groups associated to the Tate twists of the 2-adic second étale cohomology of the Jacobian of a hyperelliptic curve with a rational Weierstrass point. In particular, this can give a method to determine the rational points on such curves via the Chabauty–Coleman–Kim method. This is applied to answer a question of Bugeaud, Mignotte, Siksek, Stoll and Tengely.