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Counting elliptic curves of bounded Faltings height

Number Theory 2016-02-18 v2 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

We give an asymptotic formula for the number of elliptic curves over Q\mathbb{Q} with bounded Faltings height. Silverman has shown that the Faltings height for elliptic curves over number fields can be expressed in terms of modular functions and the minimal discriminant of the elliptic curve. We use this to recast the problem as one of counting lattice points in a particular region in R2\mathbb{R}^2.

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@article{arxiv.1505.05112,
  title  = {Counting elliptic curves of bounded Faltings height},
  author = {Ruthi Hortsch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.05112},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

12 pages, 2 figures, 1 table. To be published in Acta Arithmetica