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2-Selmer groups of hyperelliptic curves with two marked points

Number Theory 2016-11-11 v1

Abstract

We consider the family of hyperelliptic curves over \Q\Q of fixed genus along with a marked rational Weierstrass point and a marked rational non-Weierstrass point. When these curves are ordered by height, we prove that the average Mordell-Weil rank of their Jacobians is bounded above by 5/2. We prove this by showing that the average rank of the 2-Selmer groups is bounded above by 6. We also prove that the average size of the ϕ\phi-Selmer groups of a family of isogenies associated to this family is exactly 2.

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@article{arxiv.1611.03172,
  title  = {2-Selmer groups of hyperelliptic curves with two marked points},
  author = {Ananth N. Shankar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.03172},
  year   = {2016}
}