A divisibility related to the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture
Number Theory
2022-11-16 v1
Abstract
Let 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 divides the product of the order of the Shafarevich--Tate group of , the (global) Tamagawa number of , and the Tamagawa number of 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 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}
}
Comments
15 pages. Final version. To appear in J. Number Theory