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Congruences between Heegner points and quadratic twists of elliptic curves

Number Theory 2017-11-29 v3

Abstract

We establish a congruence formula between pp-adic logarithms of Heegner points for two elliptic curves with the same mod pp Galois representation. As a first application, we use the congruence formula when p=2p=2 to explicitly construct many quadratic twists of analytic rank zero (resp. one) for a wide class of elliptic curves EE. We show that the number of twists of EE up to twisting discriminant XX of analytic rank zero (resp. one) is X/log5/6X\gg X/\log^{5/6}X, improving the current best general bound towards Goldfeld's conjecture due to Ono--Skinner (resp. Perelli--Pomykala). We also prove the 2-part of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture for many rank zero and rank one twists of EE, which was only recently established for specific CM elliptic curves EE.

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@article{arxiv.1606.03172,
  title  = {Congruences between Heegner points and quadratic twists of elliptic curves},
  author = {Daniel Kriz and Chao Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.03172},
  year   = {2017}
}

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