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A divisibility related to the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture

Number Theory 2022-11-16 v1

Abstract

Let E/QE/\mathbb{Q} be an optimal elliptic curve of analytic rank zero. It follows from the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture for elliptic curves of analytic rank zero that the order of the torsion subgroup of E/QE/\mathbb{Q} divides the product of the order of the Shafarevich--Tate group of E/QE/\mathbb{Q}, the (global) Tamagawa number of E/QE/\mathbb{Q}, and the Tamagawa number of E/QE/\mathbb{Q} at infinity. This consequence of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture was noticed by Agashe and Stein in 2005. In this paper, we prove this divisibility statement unconditionally in many cases, including the case where the curve E/QE/\mathbb{Q} is semi-stable.

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@article{arxiv.2211.08147,
  title  = {A divisibility related to the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture},
  author = {Mentzelos Melistas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.08147},
  year   = {2022}
}

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15 pages. Final version. To appear in J. Number Theory